Authorities preparing for clashes
The party list of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation-Dashnaktsutyun includes 85 candidates and is led by ARF-D faction head Vahan Hovhannisyan.
At a news conference on Wednesday, Mr Hovhannisyan said that the list does not include a few of MPs of the party, including Hrayr Karapetyan and Ashot Apoyan.
"The party has assigned them other serious tasks in a different sphere," he said.
The head of the ARF-D parliamentary group predicts a tough struggle ahead of the May 6 parliamentary elections. Concerning possible clashes Mr Hovhannisyan said. "Judging from government's efforts to pass the bill on ‘Legal Regime of Emergency Situation' which implies using armed forces during emergency situations, I think that the authorities do not exclude them."
ARF-D ‘rejuvenates' its list
"Only one candidate has been included on the ARF-D party list from the bureau and that person is me," Vahan Hovhannisyan told reporters.
He noted that the top ten candidates on the list are "younger," with new names appearing down the list. It took the party a long time to compile the list since there were a number of issues to be agreed upon.
Remind that the top five candidates on the ARF-D electoral slate are Vahan Hovhannisyan, Armen Rustamyan, Artyusha Shahbazyan, Aghvan Vardanyan and Artsvik Minasyan.
