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ARMENIAN PARTY TO CHANGE TACTICS AFTER LEADER'S DEATH - SPOKESMAN
Arminfo
3 Apr 07
Yerevan, 3 April: There is no split in the Republican Party of Armenia.
Despite media reports the party has not split into an old and a new
wing, the party's press secretary Eduard Sharmazanov told a news
conference today.
The party is working with cohesiveness, decisiveness and purpose as
party leader [late Prime Minister] Andranik Margaryan bequeathed,
Sharmazanov said.
"Margaryan proved with his life that politics and morals are compatible
concepts," he said.
After Margaryan's death the tactics of the party will change because
Margaryan had the main function as the party leader, Sharmazanov
said. However, the strategy, and moreover the ideology of the party,
will not change.
Andranik Margaryan died of a heart attack at the age of 56 on 25 March
[2007]. After his death the duties of the chairman of the Republican
Party have been assigned to the chairman of the party's board,
Defence Minister Serzh Sargsyan. The board of the party nominated
Sargsyan to the post of prime minister late at night on 2 April.
Arminfo
3 Apr 07
Yerevan, 3 April: There is no split in the Republican Party of Armenia.
Despite media reports the party has not split into an old and a new
wing, the party's press secretary Eduard Sharmazanov told a news
conference today.
The party is working with cohesiveness, decisiveness and purpose as
party leader [late Prime Minister] Andranik Margaryan bequeathed,
Sharmazanov said.
"Margaryan proved with his life that politics and morals are compatible
concepts," he said.
After Margaryan's death the tactics of the party will change because
Margaryan had the main function as the party leader, Sharmazanov
said. However, the strategy, and moreover the ideology of the party,
will not change.
Andranik Margaryan died of a heart attack at the age of 56 on 25 March
[2007]. After his death the duties of the chairman of the Republican
Party have been assigned to the chairman of the party's board,
Defence Minister Serzh Sargsyan. The board of the party nominated
Sargsyan to the post of prime minister late at night on 2 April.