The ARF hasn’t started, so to say, decisive discussions on the presidential election to be held in February 2013. In response to a question of www.aravot.am how the party would participate in the election, Aghvan Vardanyan, the secretary of the ARF parliamentary group, said, “We have said lots of times that we haven’t discussed the issue of candidates and personalities yet. We prefer a few main problems facing the country, which will be included in the political agenda in the short-run. Only after discussing those will we decide on the form of our participation in the presidential election.”
Given the current developments, our interlocutor doesn’t see any grounds for the opposition’s complete consolidation, which was talked about during the whole summer, “Those issues will be discussed in good time, but given at least the picture of today’s political stage, there are no grounds for such optimism.”
Nelly GRIGORYAN
