YEREVAN. – ARF Dashnaktsutyun is ready to cooperate with any political party for securing transparent elections, ARFD MP Vahan Hovhannisyan said on Thursday meeting with the youth.

Asked how it was possible for the ARFD to cooperate with Prosperous Armenia Party and Armenian National Congress, Hovhannisyan said that they do not choose the parties on establishing joint headquarter to control over the elections.

“Besides, the other opposition Heritage Party quitted the joint headquarter. We cooperate with any power only on this issue,” he said adding their task is to secure justice.

The Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) Dashnaktsutyun is one of the oldest Armenian political parties. It was founded in the end of 19th century.

Following the Sovietization of Armenia in 1920, the ARF-Dashnaktsutyun was banned by the Communists and its leadership exiled. The ARF-Dashnaktsutyun officially re-emerged in Armenia after the collapse of the USSR, in 1990.

In June 2003, the party signed a coalition memorandum with the Republican Party of Armenia and Orinats Yerkir (Rule of Law). However, in 2009 ARFD left the coalition in protest against signing the protocols with Turkey. 

Party’s proportional list includes 85 candidates. Eight candidates will run for an MP seat with majority system. The party’s motto is ‘Freedom, Justice, Dashnaktsutyun.’