2008 Presidential Election Monitor
With less that six or seven months before the campaign for next year’s presidential election officially gets underway, all attention is currently on who will run for office. Under the Constitution, the incumbent president, Robert Kocharian, may not run for a third term in office and many suspect that as has been the case in most other former Soviet republics, he will hand pick his successor.
Meanwhile, in the other camp, speculation continues as to whether a common candidate can be chosen to represent a fractured and divided opposition. As mentioned on this blog before, four possible candidates have been mentioned in this regard — Artur Baghdasarian, Raffi Hovannisian, Vazgen Manukian, and possibly Kocharian’s predecessor, Levon Ter Petrosian.
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