YEREVAN. - Hayatsk daily recalls that months ago it had reflected on Armenia’s opposition ARF Dashnaktsutyun Party’s 31st General Assembly, which was held this summer and in an unusually tense atmosphere.  

“For the first time in the Party’s history after decades, no Dashnaktsutyun member representing the most influential US body and no representative from the European circles was nominated and elected to ARF’s new governing body, the Bureau. They had refused to nominate themselves and had harshly criticized the action—more correctly, the inaction—of the organization’s leadership in Armenia. We already wrote about that. And now our Dashnaktsutyun sources claim that today all this is already affecting the Armenia ‘pocket’ of the Party. The parliamentary elections are approaching, and the ‘pocket’ is virtually empty. The US body made it understood to not place any hopes on them. According to our information, they said approximately the same, in Beirut. And as luck would have it, the entrance of huge businessmen is virtually prohibited in the coming elections. What should the 100-year-old Party do?”, Hayatsk daily writes.