“In the case of certain arguments, it seems Levon Ter-Petrossian helped Bagratyan announce his candidacy, not allowing either Levon Zurabyan or Nikol Pashinyan from the Armenian National Congress (ANC) to announce their candidacies,” Styopa Safaryan, a member of the Heritage Party, said to www.aravot.am.
According to him, Ter-Petrossian’s postponing his statement on his nomination caused a congress convened by one of the ANC member parties and a nomination, “In that situation, self-nominations would have been more than strange, it would have shown that the ANC didn’t exist, rather than that it had a candidate. The ANC has to solve the issue of one candidate. I repeat in this sense, Ter-Petrossian’s postponing his decision was beneficial for Bagratyan with regard to solving the dispute in his favor.”
However, Mr. Safaryan puts forward another scenario and doesn’t rule out that the very decision of Bagratyan not to announce his candidacy prevented Ter-Petrossian, “On the
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other hand, Bagratyan himself caused Ter-Petrossian to face a dilemma either to announce his candidacy and be disgraced, or to realize his chances and not announce his candidacy, making way for Bagratyan. It is hard to say at this point in time which of these two scenarios is more realistic. Ter-Petrossian solved Bagratyan’s problem smoothly or Bagratyan solved Ter-Petrossian’s issues.”
Arpine SIMONYAN
