Although the ARF is going to simultaneously nominate two candidates this fact doesn’t give us grounds to believe that it’s going to end up doing so considering the “perplexed” behavior of the party of the recent years. It’s not likely that two of the candidates will keep running especially in the event of Levon Ter-Petrosyan’s likely nomination. And finally not always the change of situation can be pleasant. Under such circumstances the ARF will hardly take such a step to endanger the “current” power. It will always be possible to find explanations for the refusal of one of the candidates to run. For example, they can say that in order to “save the country” from the possible come-back of the ANM the ARF has decided to support a joint candidate. This option was not excluded by an ARF faction member, Ruzan Arakelyan. And this may also mean that the Dashnaks are not playing not on behalf of their candidate. At first sight it may seem that the joint candidate of the ARF is going to be Serzh Sargsyan. However, the recent developments within the ARF prove that the Dashnaks are preparing grounds to support RA Minister of Foreign Affairs, Vardan Oskanyan in the event of his nomination. This vision seems pretty realistic especially after the statement of Oskanyan, by which he said he was tired of working as an FM of RA.
