But those candidates don’t know
anything about it.Blocs and formats of the opposition field
"Justice", "17+" etc. seems to have exhausted themselves after
Constitutional referendum of last year. Now the opposition looks for new "formats",
the union of right powers, civil movement etc. It became known lately that a new
public organization would be formed in the near future. According to some information
that new organization which consists of some politicians of "17+" format,
try to form a new format on the eve of upcoming parliamentary elections. And the
members of the format will be famous figures in the "17+" format. The
oppositionists are going to form a new format the core of which will be two politicians
famous in the society; the NDU leader Vazgen Manoukian and "Heritage"
leader Raffy Hovhannisian. These two politicians can lead the people. It is even
spoken that it will be an ideal version if V. Manoukian and Raffy Hovhannisian
join in the coming parliamentary and why not, presidential elections as the candidates
of the RA President and Prime Minister. Yesterday we tried to find out how these
conversations are true and whether such a close collaboration is possible between
above -mentioned parties.The secretary on political issues of "Heritage"
party Vardan Khachatrian said that it is too doubtful. "I can’t say, there
are such certain discussions. There have been contacts in general". As regards
V. Manoukian he said that information about possible bloc between his party and
R. Hovhannisian’s are from the sphere of fantastic, especially when it is too
late to speak of those elections. "These are unserious conversations".
Anyway Mr. Manoukian said; "There are different correlations inside the opposition.
Speaking of the elections is meaningless now but there are discussions of different
configurations among the oppositionists. There are discussions in which I take
part. I can’t say anything more."Naira Mamikonian