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What is for a political party not to nominate a candidate for presidential elections, especially for a party that has active political biography of many years? Panorama.am has interviewed ARF Dashnaktsutyun parliamentary faction member Artsvik Minasyan on the matter. 

- Mr Minasyan, is ARF going to boycott the presidential elections? 

- No, because to boycott means to be indifferent to elections. But we, on the contrary, call on citizens to take an active part in the elections: to vote for their preferred candidate or to vote against all candidates. Participation in presidential elections is a necessity because, nevertheless, changes should take place through elections.

- Is ARF Dashnaktsutyun planning to address its electorate?

- ARF Supreme Assembly’s decision and statement specified our position: if necessary, ARF Supreme Body has a possibility to come up with a statement in this period so as to orient its co-partisans and voters who support it. We keep to what the statement said and ARF Supreme Body has not decided anything else.  

- Do you think the Supreme Assembly’s decision could be changed according to developments, or you do not expect any serious developments?

- Depending on the situation, there will be discussions and we will act accordingly. Currently, our exact position is that Dashnaktsutyun does not support the ruling power. As for supporting other candidates, it will become clear during our discussions.