Aghvan Vardanyan, who is the campaign coordinator for the ARF, told reporters today that he was convinced that the party would win at least 20% of the votes cast in the May parliamentary elections.

He expressed guarded hope that the elections would be free and fair and that political forces in Armenia would finally be able to work towards the development of the country as opposed to another four years of instability and ineptitude.

Vardanyan castigated those who are seeking to cast the ARF as a pseudo-oppositionist party given its past membership in the ruling coalition.

“Today we are in the opposition and the most competent opposition around,” the ARF official noted.