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The Armenian National Congress party led by Armenia’s first President Levon Ter-Petrosyan will run in the upcoming snap parliamentary elections.

The decision was made at the meeting of the party’s new board on Tuesday.

Ter-Petrosyan is set to top the electoral list of the National Congress, while the deputy chairman of the party, Levon Zurabyan, will be the team’s campaign manager, the party said in a statement.

The board of the Armenian National Congress also adopted a statement saying the current authorities have proved incompetent.

“The Armenian statehood, the security of the citizens, the borders of the country, its territorial integrity and the existence of Artsakh are endangered,” the party said, adding the crisis of governance is further aggravated by the domestic political crisis and tense confrontation

“The people are, in fact, being offered a choice between the force which has failed in governance and forces seeking to restore the criminal-oligarchic oppressive regime. The majority of the people are disappointed with the prospect of such a choice and do not consider elections as a means of handling the crisis.

“In such a situation, the Armenian National Congress, guided by its responsibility for the fate of the state and the people and following the signals coming from different strata of society, has decided to participate in the snap parliamentary elections slated for June 20,” the statement reads.