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PRESIDENTIAL AIDE SAYS MANY OPPOSITION FORCES LACK
SUPPORTERS
YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 1, ARMENPRESS: An aide to
president Kocharian on national security issues said
today many opposition forces clearly understand they
have no chances at all to win a seat in the National
Assembly, 'not because the polls will be rigged, but
because they lack supporters."
The aide, Garnik Isagulian, who is also chairman of
a minor party called National Security, alleged that
is why these forces are already accusing the
authorities of plotting to falsify the May 12
parliamentary elections 'to justify their imminent
failure." Isagulian's opinions were rejected by Aram
Manukian, a senior member of the former ruling
Armenian National Movement., who argued that the
opposition's chances to win seats in the next
parliament ' are very big now."
Manukian said the opposition should build their
election campaign on political and economic failures
of the current administration. Manukian said he wanted
very much Armenia's first post-Soviet president Levon
Ter-Petrosian to come back to politics and fight for a
seat in the parliament. But he said he did not have
information whether the ex-president has such
intentions. "Levon Ter-Petrosian is not the man that
can be talked back into big politics. He should wish
it himself," Manukian said, adding that Ter-Petrosian
is the person that is capable to bring together the
entire opposition.
Manukian said his Armenian National Movement is
negotiating a possible alliance with some opposition
forces, adding that it will team up with the
Hanrapetutyun (Republic) party of Aram Sarkisian.
PRESIDENTIAL AIDE SAYS MANY OPPOSITION FORCES LACK
SUPPORTERS
YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 1, ARMENPRESS: An aide to
president Kocharian on national security issues said
today many opposition forces clearly understand they
have no chances at all to win a seat in the National
Assembly, 'not because the polls will be rigged, but
because they lack supporters."
The aide, Garnik Isagulian, who is also chairman of
a minor party called National Security, alleged that
is why these forces are already accusing the
authorities of plotting to falsify the May 12
parliamentary elections 'to justify their imminent
failure." Isagulian's opinions were rejected by Aram
Manukian, a senior member of the former ruling
Armenian National Movement., who argued that the
opposition's chances to win seats in the next
parliament ' are very big now."
Manukian said the opposition should build their
election campaign on political and economic failures
of the current administration. Manukian said he wanted
very much Armenia's first post-Soviet president Levon
Ter-Petrosian to come back to politics and fight for a
seat in the parliament. But he said he did not have
information whether the ex-president has such
intentions. "Levon Ter-Petrosian is not the man that
can be talked back into big politics. He should wish
it himself," Manukian said, adding that Ter-Petrosian
is the person that is capable to bring together the
entire opposition.
Manukian said his Armenian National Movement is
negotiating a possible alliance with some opposition
forces, adding that it will team up with the
Hanrapetutyun (Republic) party of Aram Sarkisian.