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From: Ina Iankulova (iiankulova@sorosny.org)
Date: Mon Apr 14 2003 - 12:35:02 EDT
ARMENIAN OPPOSITION BLOC ANNOUNCES NEW ELECTORAL STRATEGY
The opposition Artarutiun bloc announced on 12 April that it will pursue a new electoral strategy to galvanize support for defeated opposition presidential candidate Stepan Demirchian in order to win seats in the coming parliamentary elections and increase pressure on President Robert Kocharian to resign, according to RFE/RL's Yerevan bureau. Although the opposition continues to protest last month's election results, the announcement reflects a deeper strategy to leverage the momentum of the opposition's court challenges and public protests as a means to garner a greater number of seats in the Armenian parliament. Artarutiun bloc figure Albert Bazeyan explained that efforts to challenge the re-election of the Armenian president will continue because "the citizens of Armenia have the right to determine other ways of forming a legitimate government." RG
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