The Dashnaktsutyun party will announce the format of its participation in Armenian presidential elections after holding political consultations. The member of the Supreme Body of the party Armen Rustamyan and the secretary of the parliamentary faction Aghvan Vardanyan said on November 8 . They noted that the Supreme Body initiates political consultations with parties, wide society layers and expert circles. "I am convinced that we have formulated the goals our society may gather around and which may make the upcoming elections really competitive", noted Armen Rustamyan. Aghvan Vardanyan expressed his content with the statement of the Prosperous Armenia Party which noted that shifting from presidential system to parliamentary was one of the ways of settling urgent issues and implementing reforms. Mediamax notes that the provision on shifting to parliamentary system was one of the core ones in the Dashnaktsutyun's program at 2012 parliamentary elections. In July, Armen Rustamyan stated that Dashnaktsutyun was going to unite Armenia's opposition forces around the idea of changing the form of government. Speaking on the upcoming presidential elections of 2013 at that time, he stressed that the Dashnaktsutyun had always preferred to nominate its own contender but he didn't rule out the option of nominating a single oppositional candidate. "The Noyan Tapan Highlights", #41 (938) 12 November 2012

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