YEREVAN. – The pre-election promises in Armenia are not usually kept, political scientist Levon Shirinyan said during a press conference on Saturday.  

“The opposition will run in the [2013] presidential elections with a single candidate, but his chances for success are not great because the ruling [Republican Party] RPA is very organized and it has influential resources in the country’s politics,” Shirinyan noted.

In the analyst’s view, as a rule, the pre-election pledges do not become a reality in the Armenian scene. “This, simply, is somewhat of a political technology aimed at winning the people’s trust. The political arena in Armenia is nothing but an enormous field of intrigues,” Levon Shirinyan stressed.