Will force Serzh Sargsyan not to run?
"The Republican Party of Armenia will barely pass the 5 percent in the upcoming parliamentary elections," leader of "National Solidarity" Party Aram Harutyunyan declared today. According to him, the ruling party will pass the necessary threshold for entering parliament only through falsifications.
Harutyunyan says Serzh Sargsyan might be forced to step down and not even participate in the 2013 presidential elections in Armenia after falsifying the parliamentary elections.
"If the elections will be falsified to an enormous extent, it is very natural that we won't reach the presidential elections and even the opposition might demand that Serzh Sargsyan doesn't run for president," he said.
Harutyunyan doesn't think the opposition has high chances of entering parliament and predicts that the Armenian National Congress will pass the 5 percent threshold, but not more than that. "They won't garner that many votes, even if the authorities donate some votes to them."
According to Aram Harutyunyan, the ANC will lose because it also didn't do what it had pledged to do. The only thing it succeeded in was seizing Freedom Square and splitting the HHSh (Pan-Armenian National Movement).
Harutyunyan's party is getting ready to participate in the parliamentary elections with an alliance. The party has started negotiations, but Harutyunyan said he couldn't speak about that now because there might be black PR against him. As to who would do that and why, Harutyunyan didn't mention anything.
