Ruzan Arakelian: ARFD’s processes are convincing

“Our election campaign is proceeding quite successfully. Those voters who supported us in the previous elections are also supporting us now,” ARF- Dashnaktsutyun Party member, former parliamentary deputy Ruzan Arakelian told reporters today, when discussing the pre-election developments in the country.

She said that ARFD has held meetings with voters in Yerevan yards.

“For the second time, we have witnessed attempts to turn the mayoral elections into elections of a person. People have incorrect perception of this phenomenon: they go to the polls to vote for a particular person. We must convince people that these are elections of political forces,” she noted.

Speaking about peculiarities of the election program of ARFD, she said:”ARFD proposes that a commission for controling the budget of Yerevan should be set up at Yerevan Council of Elders. It is important that the opposition head the commission”.
In her words, the second important issue is the consolidation of the opposition political forces making part of the Council of Elders. She stressed that an opposition member as a single candidate should be elected as Yerevan mayor.

As regards the electorate of ARFD, R. Arakekian noted that some part of the Intelligentsia trusts their party as a political force capable of solving both foreign-policy and domestic problems. “It means that the processes implemented by ARFD are convincing to the people,” she stated.