ArmInfo. The compliance of ideas about cession of the territories around Artsakh with Serzh Sargsyan`s interests allows saying that the Armenian National Congress- People's Party of Armenia (ANC-PPA) bloc will overcome the 7% threshold, because Sargsyan badly needs supporters of cession of territories, ex-foreign minister of Artsakh, independent analyst Arman Melikyan has told ArmInfo.
In his recent interview to the Public TV of Armenia, the first president of Armenia Levon Ter-Petrosyan voiced the Karabakh conflict settlement theses coinciding with the incumbent authorities' stand in the Karabakh talks based on Madrid Principles. Meanwhile, Baku does not voice any readiness for compromises even at the level of secondary politicians, needless to say of the authorities.
"In this light, it is noteworthy that Karabakh conflict settlement approaches voiced by Ter-Petrosyan - particularly, the cession of 2/3 of the Artsakh-controlled territories to Azerbaijan - are the basis of the ANC-PPA campaign program. At the same time, the first president acknowledged Serzh Sargsyan as a legitimately elected president of Armenia," Melikyan stresses.
The parliamentary elections in Armenia are scheduled for April 2.