YEREVAN. – The peculiarity of the forthcoming presidential elections in Armenia is the fact that even though just a few days are left before the registration of the presidential candidates, there are no candidates to date, Irates De Facto newspaper reports.       

“It is interesting that the radical opposition is the most passive at this phase. There is neither a candidate here nor even ‘clatters’ in connection with the forthcoming elections. The presidential elections [in Armenia] had never been this much noiseless, non-uproarious.       

And with respect to the other opposition pole, the situation here is more severe, incurable. Our sources have learned that [opposition bloc Armenian National Congress] ANC leader [and First President] Levon Ter-Petrosyan has decided not to be nominated as presidential candidate. 

They say the incertitude, which exists these days at the Congress, has further deepened because everyone wants to know from one another: If not Ter-Petrosyan, then who [will run for president]? And it is on this road to the quest for ‘who’ that the snowball of contradictions is rolling and ‘swelling.’ [But] Until Ter-Petrosyan’s ‘favorite’ candidate is found, there will be nothing left of the Congress,” Irates De Facto writes.