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OPPOSITION ARMENIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS CALLS FOR EARLY PRESIDENTIAL, PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS
Interfax
Sept 12 2011
Russia
The opposition Armenian National Congress (ANC) has called for holding
early presidential and parliamentary elections.
"Our goal is to destroy the illegal ruling regime, for which we have
started a process aimed at forcing the authorities to call early
elections," ANC coordinator Levon Zurabian said at an opposition
rally on Friday.
Zurabian announced the ANC's plans to conduct a series of protest
rallies. "We will bring our rallies to a level at which the ruling
regime will have to retreat and concede the people's victory," he said.
Nikol Pashinian, an ANC activist and the editor-in-chief of the
opposition newspaper Aikakan Zhamanak, said the next rally should
gather "an unprecedented number of people."
Observers estimated the number of participants in the Friday rally
at some 5,000. An opposition activist said the ANC leadership was
disappointed by this number.
"The problem is financial support. The [opposition] leaders are no
longer able to pay potential participants in rallies the usual fees,"
he said.
Interfax
Sept 12 2011
Russia
The opposition Armenian National Congress (ANC) has called for holding
early presidential and parliamentary elections.
"Our goal is to destroy the illegal ruling regime, for which we have
started a process aimed at forcing the authorities to call early
elections," ANC coordinator Levon Zurabian said at an opposition
rally on Friday.
Zurabian announced the ANC's plans to conduct a series of protest
rallies. "We will bring our rallies to a level at which the ruling
regime will have to retreat and concede the people's victory," he said.
Nikol Pashinian, an ANC activist and the editor-in-chief of the
opposition newspaper Aikakan Zhamanak, said the next rally should
gather "an unprecedented number of people."
Observers estimated the number of participants in the Friday rally
at some 5,000. An opposition activist said the ANC leadership was
disappointed by this number.
"The problem is financial support. The [opposition] leaders are no
longer able to pay potential participants in rallies the usual fees,"
he said.