Levon Ter-Petrossian, Raffi Hovhannisyan and Vartan Oskanian – these are the names that are circulated these days as possible alternatives to the current president. Today, www.aravot.am inquired of Aharon Adibekyan, the director of the Sociometer center, which of those candidates was the winner, according to him.
“Theoretically, all of them are probable, but we are preparing for a poll and we will decide what the voters think of these 3 candidates, I think 4, which one of them will be more attractive than Levon Ter-Petrossian, Oskanian, Tsarukyan, Kocharyan, Raffi Hovhannisyan or Vahan Hovhannisyan, we will conduct a poll, will present it to you and then you will decide why our people have made such a decision or made such a choice. I cannot answer on behalf of the people. I am not like Iskandaryan; I am not like other political commentators to attribute my opinion to the people or anyone else. I try to understand the public opinion.”
According to Adibekyan, the opposition will not order him to conduct an opinion poll, if it has one conducted, it will not make it public or will have it conducted by doubtful centers, “The latest parliamentary election showed that all centers, except for Sociometer, were not able to predict the election results, only we were 100% correct. We will help the opposition to make up its mind which one is a passable candidate accepted by the people and let them work next to him, with him. We will help the opposition, what is the problem?”
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Armen Martirosyan, a member of the Heritage Party executive committee, said that Levon Ter-Petrossian was not a charismatic candidate, he had been charismatic in 2008, but he had lost his charisma during the past years. According to Aharon Adibekyan, it is his personal opinion, “Levon Ter-Petrossian had a certain electorate in the previous presidential and mayoral elections, which is bigger than that of Robert Kocharyan, at this point in time. Perhaps, if Robert Kocharyan announces, his former comrades-in-arms will rise, but since he keeps silent, Levon Ter-Petrossian is in the top five that can aspire after such things. Levon Ter-Petrossian has an electorate now too, he has charisma, don’t forget that he had comrades-in-arms, he was the leader of a movement, the president, there are people who got many things from him, got benefits, came to power, not all of them are ungrateful, are they? In any case, human memory is short, I know that, we will see in September whom the people consider at the starting stage, it will be outlined.”
Hripsime JEBEJYAN
