YEREVAN. – The most serious challenge facing Armenia is to modernize the country, ARF Dashnaktsutyun MP Lilith Galstyan announced at a press conference on Wednesday.

According to her, before the elections political content should answer questions concerning the future of Armenia and the interests of the Armenian citizens. Besides, the current situation is not modernizing Armenia at all.

The MP told something her neighbor had told her: one party in Metsamor distributed jelly, the other one a jam, the population took the gifts from both parties.

“By such actions, we are spoiling the society. Our reality does not have any alternatives for modernization,” she said.

The Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) Dashnaktsutyun is one of the oldest Armenian political parties. It was founded in the end of 19th century.

Following the Sovietization of Armenia in 1920, the ARF-Dashnaktsutyun was banned by the Communists and its leadership exiled. The ARF-Dashnaktsutyun officially re-emerged in Armenia after the collapse of the USSR, in 1990.

In June 2003, the party signed a coalition memorandum with the Republican Party of Armenia and Orinats Yerkir (Rule of Law). However, in 2009 ARFD left the coalition in protest against signing the protocols with Turkey. 

Party’s proportional list includes 85 candidates. Eight candidates will run for an MP seat with majority system. The party’s motto is ‘Freedom, Justice, Dashnaktsutyun.’