As assessed by political technologist Karen Kocharyan, a number of political forces represented in the campaign by a single person. RPA by Karen Karapetyan, the “Tsarukyan” alliance by Gagik Tsarukyan, ARP by Arthur Baghdasaryan, ORO Alliance by Seyran Ohanyan. “This was the peculiarity of this parliamentary election campaign from other campaigns. There was no particular difference about who conducted the campaign and how: populism as much as you want, the RPA Party’s reputation was initially very low, they tried to save it with the help of Karen Karapetyan, and to some extent, they succeeded because the level of the rating that existed before Karen Karapetyan and after Karen Karapetyan is quite different,” said Karen Kocharyan at the “Hayeli” club.
As mentioned by Mr. Kocharyan, there are two political forces that have already solved their being in the parliament: the Republican Party and the “Tsarukyan” Alliance, “Another four political parties and alliance have the chance to pass: the “Free Democrats,” the “Yelq”, the ARF and the ARP. Although, ORO had quite a crowded rally yesterday, but we all realize that the populous will not be sufficient during the elections.” Referring to the Communist Party, Mr. Kocharyan said that they will hardly gather one or two percent of votes.
Speaking about Levon Ter-Petrosyan, Karen Kocharyan said that the first president is not the figure that will activate by someone’s saying, it is another matter that he tried to use the fact that in last one year, he rendered three serious supports to the authorities: during the activities of April war and “Sasna Tsrer”, and with the latest speech, the continuation of which, according to Mr. Kocharyan, became the whole campaign, with peace format, “Which, in my opinion, did not work for today’s electorate. It did not work in the manner how this peace is agitated.”
