VAZGEN MANUKYAN WILL HAVE AN INTOLERABLE FUTURE
Support A1+!“My political future will be intolerable after the elections”, said Chairman of the “National Democratic Union” Vazgen Manukyan. He is convinced that after the elections he will continue his career as the RA President, whose commitments and amount of work will be great. “What if you are not elected? What career perspectives do you have?” Manukyan did not respond to these questions.
Vazgen Manukyan’s confidence is agreed with the fact that he has always won. He won even when he was the Minister of Defense. As to the consideration that Vazgen Manukyan did not win during 1998 and 2003 elections, the Chairman of the “National Democratic Union” agreed partly: “In 2003 the feeling to revenge was great and that wave brought new heroes”. Vazgen Manukyan ensured that in 1998 Karen Demirchyan would win in the first stage, or he and Karen Demirchyan would compete in the second stage, but not Robert Kocharyan. According to him all powerful structures, Vano Shiradeghyan, Vazgen Sargsyan, the “All Armenian Movement” party supported Robert Kocharyan and all administrative resources fought against Vazgen Manukyan in order not to promote the continuation of 1996.
My and the nation’s motives coincide, our motive is to establish a modern national state. Four powers support Vazgen Manukyan: “I am proud that these parties support me, of course, I would like other parties also to support me as well”, said Vazgen Manukyan. Among Manukyan’s supporters are the “National Democratic Alliance” party headed by Ashak Sadoyan, the “National Democratic Party” headed by Shavarsh Kocharyan, the “National State” party headed by Samvel Shahinyan and Hrant Khachatryan’s “Constitutional Rights Union”.
Although Vazgen Manukyan is convinced that he will be elected, he is confirmed that the elections will not be conducted without frauds. “No free and fair elections have been conducted in Armenia”. The opposition will win only “if a united power is set up, which in 1996 de facto defeated authorities”. Vazgen Manukyan also underlined that the powers should unite not only for victory, for coming to power, but for the state they wanted to establish after the elections. To the question who the five parties would support if Manukyan was not elected, the latter insisted that he would definitely win and did not want to think of anything else.
Vazgen Manukyan prioritizes sociological surveys, but he believes in the surveys carried out by his party on the phone, which showed the true image both in 1996 and in 2003. Manukyan also noted that crowded gatherings did not speak of a leader’s rating, since people came for interest. He reminded 2000-2001 Arkadi Vardanyan’s movement.