Republican Party of Armenia Doesn’t See Any Potential Power Besides Itself

The party that doesn’t want to have majority in the parliament is not a good party, but any statement of this type should have objective grounds, said Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) spokesman Eduard Sharmazanov in his interview to Vestnik Kavkaza (Caucasus Messenger), commenting on Prosperous Armenia party leader Gagik Tsarukyan’s statement that his party was going to nominate its candidate for the presidential elections if the party takes 50% and 1 vote at the parliamentary elections of 2012.

“If for most of the parties these are only ambitions, our victories at the parliamentary and presidential elections of 2007 and 2008 respectively are real facts. At present, I don’t see any potential power besides Republican Party of Armenia able to gather the majority of the electorate’s votes and consequently to form a new parliament and the results of the polls and the research conducted in this direction are testimonies to this fact. At the same time I can’t make any comments regarding Prosperous Armenia party’s chances as any party has a right to draw its own conclusions,” said Sharmazanov.