YEREVAN, APRIL 2, NOYAN TAPAN. If being elected an ARFD Mayor is ready to work with professional managers irrespective of their party belonging. Artsvik Minasian, a member of the RA National Assembly ARFD faction, heading the ARFD electoral roll in Yerevan Council of Elders elections stated at the April 1 press conference. He said that if in the elections Dashnaktsutiun receives a considerable advantage and the party makes such a decision, he is ready to renounce his deputy mandate. Touching upon the fact of appointing Mayor former Kentron community prefect Gagik Beglarian on the threshold of the elections, A. Minasian said that it was President's competence, and the President did not see a necessity of discussion with coalition parties. A. Minasian does not see any problem connected with G. Beglarian heading the RPA party list if the latter keeps the "rules of the game," does not use his administrative levers and does not spend funds of Mayor's Office on voter buying. The ARFD deputy expressed an apprehension that RPA members will wish to use their administrative resources as they did it in the previous elections. He affirmed that only the President, who is also the RPA leader, can give guarantees that the administrative resources will not be used. A. Minasian expressed the hope that the President will make such a decision and will publicly state it. According to him, by stating that the rumors on collecting passports and making up lists of those to vote for them are a provocation and there is nothing of the kind, the RPA is engaged in demagogy. According to A. Minasian, such a policy will result in deepening of the tension, which can be the reason of one more March 1.

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