ARF ‘Going it Alone’ for 2017 Elections

Aghvan Vardanyan (Photo: Photolure)

YEREVAN (Armenian Weekly)””The Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) announced on December 25 that it will not enter into an alliance with other political forces for the 2017 Parliamentary Elections.

ARF Parliamentary Faction secretary and ARF Supreme Body of Armenia member Aghvan Vardanyan told journalists that while the ARF will not join a bloc, there is a possibility of coming to a new deal with President Serge Sarkisian and his Republican Party (RPA). The ARF signed a cooperation agreement with the RPA in February. Currently, the ARF has three ministerial portfolios.

“Our agreement [with President Sarkisian] is open-ended”¦ If the results of the parliamentary elections allow that”¦ we have a huge circle of issues which we can solve,”