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WHAT LARISA ALAVERDYAN EXPECTED FROM THE PROSPEROUS ARMENIA PARTY (PAP) REGARDING THE SIGNATURE COLLECTING HAS HAPPENED
http://www.aravot.am/en/2012/07/17/91476/
July 17, 2012 15:32
"I was convinced that it would fail. The initiators of the Vahe
Avetyan social movement were also sure of that, because there was a
conviction among many of us that the Prosperous Armenia Party would
not join it. Only a few people might join and the necessary number
would not be collected. This was my conviction. And so it happened,"
Larisa Alaverdyan, a former Heritage Party MP and the former Human
Rights Defender, said, in response to a question of www.aravot.am why
the initiative to convene a National Assembly extraordinary session
on the Harsnakar incident had failed.
In response to our observation that there had been a consultation
with the PAP, they had discussed together and then initiated, Ms.
Alaverdyan said that since she wasn't aware of those discussions,
what had been promised to the PAP, she just made her assessment,
"What I expected from that force has happened. I was convinced that
the necessary number of signatures would not be collected from the
PAP MPs."
Opposition groups intend to make the same proposal in September again.
Ms. Alaverdyan welcomed that, "I welcome the consistency in that
issue. I expect that perhaps, the signatures will be collected,
because the situation will have changed by September and we will talk
about it. I think that the PAP parliamentary group leaders discuss the
situation, they make certain decisions based on those circumstances."
Anahit Bakhshyan, another MP of the fourth convocation of the National
Assembly, thinks that it wasn't in the PAP interests, therefore,
that initiative failed, "Political forces - i.e. the majority - is not
interested in that. That signature collecting didn't correspond to the
goals of the majority, its interests." In response to our observation
that they mainly blamed the PAP that they were many, hadn't joined, if
they had, the issue would have been solved, Ms. Bakhshyan said, "They
said in advance that they would collect, there were some negotiations
in advance, they had conviction, they believed them, but it didn't
happen. And there will be no success unless the Armenian National
Congress (ANC) stops considering the PAP its political support."
From: A. Papazian
http://www.aravot.am/en/2012/07/17/91476/
July 17, 2012 15:32
"I was convinced that it would fail. The initiators of the Vahe
Avetyan social movement were also sure of that, because there was a
conviction among many of us that the Prosperous Armenia Party would
not join it. Only a few people might join and the necessary number
would not be collected. This was my conviction. And so it happened,"
Larisa Alaverdyan, a former Heritage Party MP and the former Human
Rights Defender, said, in response to a question of www.aravot.am why
the initiative to convene a National Assembly extraordinary session
on the Harsnakar incident had failed.
In response to our observation that there had been a consultation
with the PAP, they had discussed together and then initiated, Ms.
Alaverdyan said that since she wasn't aware of those discussions,
what had been promised to the PAP, she just made her assessment,
"What I expected from that force has happened. I was convinced that
the necessary number of signatures would not be collected from the
PAP MPs."
Opposition groups intend to make the same proposal in September again.
Ms. Alaverdyan welcomed that, "I welcome the consistency in that
issue. I expect that perhaps, the signatures will be collected,
because the situation will have changed by September and we will talk
about it. I think that the PAP parliamentary group leaders discuss the
situation, they make certain decisions based on those circumstances."
Anahit Bakhshyan, another MP of the fourth convocation of the National
Assembly, thinks that it wasn't in the PAP interests, therefore,
that initiative failed, "Political forces - i.e. the majority - is not
interested in that. That signature collecting didn't correspond to the
goals of the majority, its interests." In response to our observation
that they mainly blamed the PAP that they were many, hadn't joined, if
they had, the issue would have been solved, Ms. Bakhshyan said, "They
said in advance that they would collect, there were some negotiations
in advance, they had conviction, they believed them, but it didn't
happen. And there will be no success unless the Armenian National
Congress (ANC) stops considering the PAP its political support."
From: A. Papazian