A campaign is being carried out against the ARF - ARF member.

Member of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) Aghvan Vardanyan called on other political forces to maintain the rules of civilized competition.

‘It is not the last battle, and we should be able to maintain the rules of civilized competition,’ he said speaking to reporters today, stressing that he makes such statement after noticing pre-electoral tension in many places.

The ARF representative said he is not pleased with the work of mass media who are not acting freely and independently. ‘I regret for the orienting public opinion polls. They cannot change anything. But there is a group of people enjoying such statements,’ he said.

Vardanyan reminded that such scenario was registered during the previous elections as well when the ARF was predicted to get small number of votes but received 170 000 in case when the number of the ARF members was 6000-6500.

Aghvan Vardanyan said a campaign is being carried out against the ARF. According to him, negative statements are being voiced addressed to the ARF leaders, the circumstance that the ARF used to be part of the ruling coalition is being speculated on, attempt is being made to separate the party. ‘Forget it. No one can separate us. Attempts have been made to do it during the past 20 years. But neither foreign enemies nor interior contenders managed to do it,’ he said.

Aghvan Vardanyan said in #4 election district they are going to back chief editor of 168 Zham paper Satik Seyranyan as the other candidates nominated there are from opponent political forces and Satik Seyranian is non-party and is independent journalist.