Presidential nominee, epos specialist Vardan Sedrakyan is confident that he will become the president of Armenia as a result of the elections to be held on February 18. Sedrakyan himself stated this during a press conference on Thursday.    

In his words, this confidence of his has neither grown nor reduced. What is more, he believes that by not running in the forthcoming elections, the previous two presidents showed that his program is realistic. 

To the query as to how he will treat the oligarchs if he is elected president, Sedrakyan said he will do what is done in the world entire: “The Oligarchs will pay taxes lawfully,” he noted. 

In response to the question as to who is funding him, Vardan Sedrakyan stated: “I am simply troubled by the rumors that as if I am being sponsored by religious organizations. I am a follower of the Armenian Apostolic Church. I was baptized when I was forty days old. And [the Mother See of Holy] Etchmiadzin is a trestle of my spiritual world.”