Hakob Avetikyan, the leader of the ADLP, thinks that one of the reasons for the Armenian National Congress (ANC) electorate’s diminishment was the criticism and curses against the government. “There is a lot of discontent among our people. They think that if they stir up that discontent – moreover, all of their speeches and their whole election campaign were based on it – the people will cast more votes for them, it wasn’t the case, quite the opposite happened,” Hakob Avetikyan, the leader of the ADLP said during a conversation with www.aravot.am.
In his words, the ADLP is not going to nominate its own candidate for the upcoming presidential election, but it will endorse the candidate of one of the parties for sure. The party thinks that it is too early to talk about this and the party leader still has a liking for current President Serzh Sargsyan, “There is officially no one, not counting Vartan Oskanian’s aspirations, I have read in the press, he hasn’t said anything. Certainly, among all of these people, the inclination is toward the current president, but this is my personal opinion, it is a different matter what the executive committee and the convention will decide afterwards.”
Arpine SIMONYAN
