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SHAVARSH KOCHARYAN LEARNED ABOUT ALLIANCE FROM MEDIA
Lragir, Armenia
July 24 2007
The leader of the National Democratic Party Shavarsh Kocharyan stated
July 24 at the Hayatsk club that if the parliamentary election of
May 12 does not teach a lesson to the opposition, it will lose the
presidential election of 2008. As of now, they seem to have learned
no lesson, Shavarsh Kocharyan stated.
Shavarsh Kocharyan thinks the parliamentary election is more important
because after the amendments to the Constitution Armenia is a
semi-presidential state. "The question of the government is solved
in the parliamentary election." According to Shavarsh Kocharyan,
if the candidate endorsed by the parliamentary majority wins the
presidential election, the majority's power will become stronger. If
another candidate becomes president, the parliament majority has every
legal ground to limit the president's powers. At best "the president
becomes a counterbalance".
If the alliance of the opposition before the presidential election
becomes an imitation, Shavarsh Kocharyan will prefer not participating
in the imitation. By the way, with regard to the rumors that the
National Democratic Party, the Alliance of National Democrats which
were born from the National Democratic Union will ally with the
NDU, Shavarsh Kocharyan said he had heard about this alliance from
the media.
Lragir, Armenia
July 24 2007
The leader of the National Democratic Party Shavarsh Kocharyan stated
July 24 at the Hayatsk club that if the parliamentary election of
May 12 does not teach a lesson to the opposition, it will lose the
presidential election of 2008. As of now, they seem to have learned
no lesson, Shavarsh Kocharyan stated.
Shavarsh Kocharyan thinks the parliamentary election is more important
because after the amendments to the Constitution Armenia is a
semi-presidential state. "The question of the government is solved
in the parliamentary election." According to Shavarsh Kocharyan,
if the candidate endorsed by the parliamentary majority wins the
presidential election, the majority's power will become stronger. If
another candidate becomes president, the parliament majority has every
legal ground to limit the president's powers. At best "the president
becomes a counterbalance".
If the alliance of the opposition before the presidential election
becomes an imitation, Shavarsh Kocharyan will prefer not participating
in the imitation. By the way, with regard to the rumors that the
National Democratic Party, the Alliance of National Democrats which
were born from the National Democratic Union will ally with the
NDU, Shavarsh Kocharyan said he had heard about this alliance from
the media.