YEREVAN. – Armenia’s opposition Heritage Party Chairman Raffi Hovannisian will run for next year’s presidential elections, Hovannisian himself announced during a press conference on Friday.   

In his words, he is doing this as an Armenian citizen who bears responsibility, will, and guilt for the current situation in the country, and therefore he wants for this situation to be mended, surmounted, and lessened.

“I expect the participation by and support of those who want to see democracy in Armenia, of those who expect that the family of their president must be impoverished in Armenia as long as there is even one poor family in the republic, and of those who wish to see our republic as a sovereign country,” Raffi Hovannisian added.            

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