YEREVAN. – The presidential elections will probably be held on March 2, and the negotiations on choosing candidates will start already this week at the Republican Party’s Supreme Body session, head of the Republican Party of Armenia faction Vahram Baghdasaryan told reporters.

 “The candidate should be a person enjoying authority and having an influence in the Diaspora, someone with no party affiliation. We should keep these standards. Concerning the question whether we have such people in Armenia, I can only answer that we indeed have such people in our country, whose names can’t be told at the moment”, stated Baghdasaryan.

Asked whether it’s possible for the candidate of the Republican Party president to be from the Diaspora, Baghdasaryan answered that the candidate should be acceptable for the Diaspora, for the external world. When asked whether there are such characters that Baghdasaryan could name, the head of faction answered that for him there may be some characters whose names he is only going to announce during the session.