2008-01-30 18:06:00
About 170,000 citizens have signed agreement with presidential candidate from ARFD

ArmInfo. The citizens who have signed an agreement with presidential candidate from ARFD Vahan Hovhannissyan number 170,000 people. The candidate announced this figure at a press conference, Wednesday.

The candidate and his supporters hope that this figure will dynamically grow up to the day of election. At the same time, Vahan Hovhannissyan said his supporters exposed about 20 cases of signing “false agreements”.

To recall, at the end of 2007 V. Hovhannissyan proposed the citizens to conclude a peculiar bilateral agreement with him. Under the agreement, V. Hovhannissyan pledges to fulfill a number of promises, including fair election, social reforms and others if elected. Among the people that have signed the agreement are also people ready to become the candidate campaign agents or just help him in the
presidential race.

2008-01-30 17:57:00
RA presidential contender from ARF Dashnaktsutyun party: Presidential contenders should use their authority not to allow incidents during meetings with voters

ArmInfo. RA presidential contenders should use their authority not to allow incidents during the meetings with voters , RA presidential contender from ARF Dashnaktsutyun party Vahan Hovhannisyan said at today’s press- conference, commenting on January 27 incident in the town of Talin.

To recall, a scuffle happened during the meeting of RA presidential contender Levon Ter-Petrosyan with voters in Talin. A criminal case has already been launched on this fact.

As V. Hovhannisyan said, the candidates are not engaged in organization of meetings with voters, this is in the campaign headquarters’ sphere, however, the candidates may and should suppress such incidents using their authority. “I urge the candidates to pacify some of their supporter and the municipal authorities - not to disserve the authorities”, V. Hovhannisyan said.

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