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From: Eurasiaweek (thisweek@eurasianet.org)
Date: Thu Jun 06 2002 - 16:49:47 EDT
FORMER ARMENIAN DISSIDENT ANNOUNCES PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDACY.
Self-Determination Union Chairman Paruyr Hairikian told journalists
in Yerevan on 5 June that his party has nominated him as its
candidate for the presidential election due in March 2003, according
to Noyan Tapan and Armenpress, as cited by Groong. He said that
"there is an electorate that wants me to compete" for the presidency,
and that businessmen whom he declined to name have begun raising
funds to finance his campaign. Hairikian, who spent 17 years in
Soviet labor camps between 1969-1987, ran for president in 1991 and
1998; in 1996, he registered for the ballot but then withdrew his
candidacy in favor of joint opposition candidate Vazgen Manukian. He
resigned three months ago as chairman of the presidential commission
on human rights, saying he intended to return to politics full time
(see "RFE/RL Newsline," 18 March 2002). LF
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