YEREVAN. – Forty people have joined the “Hayrikyan for President” initiative with their signatures Monday, Armenia’s National Self-Determination Union Chairman Paruyr Hayrikyan said during a press conference on Tuesday.     

In his words, he decided and is obligated to run in next year’s presidential elections, because he has a program toward making Armenia become the most democratic country.  

“I do not want to seem immodest, but I feel sorry for those people who will attempt to compete with me in the moral and psychological sphere,” Paruyr Hayrikyan noted.

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