When Artsvik Minasyan greeted, where was Raffi Hovannisian?

Member of ARF-D Supreme Body, deputy of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia, who heads the list of ARF-D in the elections of Yerevan Council of Elders, Armen Rustamyan today during a meeting with reporters, referring to the process of the election campaign, upcoming May 5 elections, said that the government is doing everything possible to reduce the role of elections of yerevan Council of Elders. According to Armen Rustamyan, in our country the electorate is formed by kinship and personal relations, and the task of ARF-D is to prove that the elections are of major political significance.

Armen Rustamyan is convinced that the Republican Party is making every effort to avoid even one elected village head of another party, to say nothing about the Mayor of Yerevan, as if the Republican Party will go to such a concession, this one-man system will come to an end.

"Today, the situation in our country has changed. The time has come when to buy a voice of people is not easy. People are so tired of all this that they have nothing to lose. A one-way out in the country is to achieve regime change", Armen Rustamyan said.

During the conference, journalists asked Armen Rustamyan, if he does not notice similarity between election campaigns of ARF-D and Raffi Hovannisian, referring to welcoming citizens, to which he replied: "Raffi did not start greeting. If you want to know first who began to shake hands with the citizens was our Artsvik Minasyan, who in 2009 greeted everyone. "