At a press conference today, Free Democrats President Khachatur Kokobelyan held out hope that his party and the Heritage Party would jointly contest seats in the upcoming parliamentary elections in Armenia.

Kokobelyan said there was “a public demand to see these two forces unite.”

He said that it wouldn’t be hard for the two to reach the 5% vote threshold to get into parliament.

The Free Democrats leaders said he had met with Heritage Party chief Raffi Hovannisian and declared Heritage as a political force that has proved itself to be a defender of the people’s interests.

Kokobelyan said that a final decision regarding electoral cooperation would be reached in the period of March 2-10.