ANC member: Armenia has entered pre-election stageMarch 30, 2012 - 18:42 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Welcoming the demonstrators, Armenian National Movement board chair Aram Manukyan noted that Armenia has entered the pre-election stage, which promises to be “quite tense.” According to him, parliamentary elections have never been prerequisite for the presidential race in Armenia. He further noted that the nation has currently divided into two, one of them standing up for their rights, while the second preferring to leave the country in disappointment. “We aim not only to win the parliamentary race, but also to create such Armenia, that would have the emigrants return their homeland,” he said, dubbing the gathering an “information rally, rather than mere propaganda.
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