Friday, November 30, 2012

Dashnaktsutyun Says No Progress On Opposition Election Bloc

The Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) and other major opposition force have made no progress so far towards the possible nomination of a joint candidate for the upcoming presidential election, a Dashnaktsutyun leader said on Friday.

Armen Rustamian said his party has yet to drum up broad-based opposition support for support for constitutional and other major changes which it believes should be enacted in Armenia.

Earlier this month the opposition party unveiled a 7-point pre-election "agenda" that calls for Armenia's transformation into a parliamentary republic, the holding of parliamentary elections on the solely party list basis, independence of the national judicial system and separation of big business from government. The document also envisages a "military- political alliance" between Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh and the annulment of the 2009 Turkish-Armenian protocols strongly opposed by Dashnaktsutyun.

Armenian News

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