“Elections uncovered a rather serious crisis of American democracy. It’s not a secret that both candidates had a negative rating. We observed those growing figures during the campaign. Thus, in my opinion, Americans voted not in favor of this, but against the other candidate, who was more unpleasant to the voters out of certain circumstances, and maybe, even justified.”
Sixteen years before Donald Trump’s election as US President, The Simpsons predicted the tycoon would become leader of the free world, the Mirror reports.
“Just the contrary, the Armenian Community should have made a correct calculation and support any of them, if now it decides to do something there, I think, it’ll bring some difficulties,” A.Navasardyan said.
In his words, despite who’ll be elected as the president, 80% of its foreign policy will remain unchanged, and 20% will reflect preferences of the newly elected president. “No matter, who the next president will be, Armenia will remain the partner of the USA,” Ambassador Mills said.
“These were rather interesting elections in the sense that both internal and external political factors were important,” Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Arman Navasardyan told reporters today, touching upon the presidential elections in the U.S.
Suren Zolyan, former Rector of Yerevan State Linguistic University after V.Brusov, Doctor in Political Science, considers that the Armenian Community in the U.S. isn’t participating in elections held in the USA, as it’s “disappointed.”
Donald John Trump was elected the 45th president of the United States on Tuesday in a stunning culmination of an explosive, populist and polarizing campaign that took relentless aim at the institutions and long-held ideals of American democracy.
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has called Republican nominee Donald Trump to concede the race, CNN reported Wednesday morning.
“We should reflect to the third component—role and importance of the Armenian Community in these elections. First and foremost, I should mention, that the Armenian Community assumed a rather passive role, that of a voter only. Armenian organizations only stated that they will support neither Hillary Clinton, nor Donald Trump.”
At the joint press conference of PMs of Armenia Karen Karapetyan and of Artsakh Arayik Harutyunyan, launched in Artsakh, as anticipated, the issue of gas tariff review was touched upon again. Reporters asked again: how “Gazprom-Armenia” operating with a loss, reduces the tariff and won’t we withdraw any property to this company in the future?
