The ARF-D campaign’s round of open meetings with the public kicked off on April 18 at Yerevan city’s Malatia-Sebastia region, yerkir.am reports. Head of the ARF-D list and Chairman of the party’s Supreme Council of Armenia, Armen Rustamyan told the public that ARF-D is interested in changing the city by changing the mayor, rather than…
Municipal Elections 2013
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Vardanyan Says ARF-D Will Do Better This Time, Accuses Regime Of Abusing State Levers
The overwhelming majority of the voters is that segment of the population which is more independent and less succumbing to pressure, told ARF-D Supreme Council of Armenia Vice Chairman, Aghvan Vardanyan to news.am in reply to a remark about the party’s voters being mostly from outside the capital. In Vardanyan’s opinion vote rigging and administrative…
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Minasyan: ARF-D Puts Collective Interests And Armenia’s Statehood Above All
In reply to a question during Armnews TV “Banadzev” program about whether it is necessary to have a bourgeois-democratic revolution in Armenia today, ARF-D Parliamentary Faction member, Artsvik Minasyan stated that he doubts that any kind of a revolution will be taking place anytime soon in Armenia and that ARF-D is for positive, forward-moving changes…
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Not Everything Is Lost, Rustamyan Says
During the regular meeting with the press, the Head of ARF-D Parliamentary Faction, Armen Rustamyan said that on April 9, there was only one inauguration, referring to Sargsyan being sworn-in as President and to which ARF-D didn’t attend. Rustamyan also said that the rally that took place the same day on Liberty Square evolved in…
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Hambartzumyan: These Elections Are Political; These Elections Are For City Council Not For Mayor
“In a couple of days we will launch our open meetings round with the public” said ARF-D Supreme Council of Armenia Vice Chairman, Arsen Hambartzumyan who is third in the party’s list of candidates for the May 5 Yerevan municipal elections, yerkirmedia.am reports. “These are not a single-person elections” Hambartzumyan added and stated that besides…
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ARF-D Yerevan Municipal Election Platform
Fellow citizens of Yerevan, The May 5 Yerevan municipal elections will determine not only the capital’s prospect of development, but that of the entire Armenia, as well. It is time for decisive and radical changes in our country. It is time for Yerevan. This election is a unique referendum about trusting the ruling regime. It…
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Moving Forward in Stages: An Interview With ARF’s Armen Rustamyan
(armenianweekly.com, 31 March 2013)—The Armenian Weekly’s correspondent in Yerevan sat down on March 28 with ARF Supreme Council representative Armen Rustamyan, to talk about developments in the aftermath of Armenia’s presidential election and the ARF’s outlook on the eve of Yerevan’s municipal vote. Rustamyan heads the ARF’s electoral list in the upcoming city elections, scheduled…
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Rustamyan: “We Will Try To Form A Post-election Alliance”
Below is the text of the interview ARF-D Supreme Council of Armenia Chairman, Armen Rustamyan gave to RFE/RL’s Armenian Service (Azatutyun.am). (azatutyun.am, 27/3/2013) – A senior member of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) has confirmed ongoing talks with other opposition and non-government parties around the possibility of forming a coalition after the May municipal elections…
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Vardanyan On Yerevan Municipal And Presidential Elections
On March 26, ARF-D Supreme Council of Armenia, Vice Chairman Aghvan Vardanyan gave a press conference at Post Scriptum press club. Vardanyan said that these are political elections by the law that provisions a race to be conducted between the political parties but by their nature as well, no matter how much the ruling regime…
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“Yerevan, Change Armenia”
“Changes will begin from the country’s capital city, Yerevan and expand throughout Armenia” said ARF-D Parliamentary Faction Secretary, Aghvan Vardanyan, to media representatives at the Parliament, on March 23 and revealed that based on that conviction the party’s election logo will be “Yerevan, change Armenia”, tert.am reports. “We must be aware that this is not…
