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"Hairitage" Will Endorse Levon Ter-Petrossian

[2008-02-12 02:33 | Echannel.am] Interesting developments: during a press conference today the press secretary of "Hairitage" party Hovsep Khurshudyan and MP Vardan Khachatryan have announced the decision made by the board of the party about endorsing the candidacy of Ex-President Levon Ter-Petrossian during the upcoming presidential elections.

This move was both expected and unexpected: we all knew, that Raffi Hovhannisyan, as a leader of an opposition party in Parliament, would have preferred to support an opposition candidate, however, there are vast difference in approaches to foreign policy issues like Armenia - Turkey relations and Karabakch resolution between what the "Hairitage" party/Raffi Hovhannisyan have been proposing so far, and what Levon Ter-Petrossian has said or has implied. Moreover, back in the 90's, Raffi Hovhannisyan was fired from his post of Foreign Minister over his disagreement with Levon Ter-Petrossian regarding the Armenian Genocide issue and foreign policy towards Turkey. It remains to be seen, just how much "Hairitage" has compromised, and in return for what?

Posted on 12th Feb, 2008 at 15:25 | | Leave a comment | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend

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[info]moonleight

disappointing, very. raffi stops being a potential alternative.
Posted on 12th Feb, 2008 13:31 (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]ditord

Although I really like Raffi as a person - he never was a viable political alternative to me. Even during the past parliamentary elections - he had difficulty finding his political niche, and although I didn't vote myself (for technical reasons), I advised everybody to vote for ARF - because what Raffi was offering was a strange mix of ARF foreign policy and unfocused liberalism.
Posted on 12th Feb, 2008 14:45 (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

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