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Raffi Hovannisian urges opposition forces to join efforts to fight ruling regime
ARMINFO
Friday, April 19, 22:43
April 19 marks the launch of New Armenia's movement that will
consolidate the whole opposition field to fight the ruling regime,
Heritage Party leader Raffi Hovannisian said during the meeting with
his supporters on Friday. He said that all political forces can join
the movement provided that they will fight till the end. He stressed
that it is the movement of the people who won on Feb 18.
Hovannisian said that on April 9 the Armenian authorities demonstrated
that they will stick at nothing and will even sacrifice their own
people to maintain their personal power. He thinks that there is no
time to wait for 5 more years and it is necessary to find the ways to
overthrow the power as soon as possible. The Heritage leader calls on
all presidents who "were elected but did not rule Armenia, as well as
the political forces that were elected but did not become a
parliamentary majority" to join him and conduct a joint fight "against
the evil".
To note, Petros Makeyan, Chairman of the Democratic Motherland Party,
which has been a member of the Armenian National Congress before, was
also present at the meeting. So were Hovhannes Igityan, former member
of the Board of the Armenian National Movement Party, which no longer
exists, and Armen Rustamyan, Head of the ARF Dashnaktsutyun Faction.
Rustamyan said that to make the ruling regime resign and to avoid
bloodshed, the opposition should use soft power in its fight. He
reiterated the ARFD's position that it is necessary to change the
governance system as soon as possible and to switch to the
parliamentary regime. "The Parliament should have the people who
deserve being in Parliament, not the ones the President or the ruling
party wants to see", Rustamyan said.
He thinks that the levers of the anti-corruption fight should belong
to the opposition. "The Prime Minister cannot fight corruption,
because he is corrupted himself. If the authorities really want to
fight corruption, the relevant commission set up by the Government
should be headed by the opposition", said Rustamyan.
From: A. Papazian
ARMINFO
Friday, April 19, 22:43
April 19 marks the launch of New Armenia's movement that will
consolidate the whole opposition field to fight the ruling regime,
Heritage Party leader Raffi Hovannisian said during the meeting with
his supporters on Friday. He said that all political forces can join
the movement provided that they will fight till the end. He stressed
that it is the movement of the people who won on Feb 18.
Hovannisian said that on April 9 the Armenian authorities demonstrated
that they will stick at nothing and will even sacrifice their own
people to maintain their personal power. He thinks that there is no
time to wait for 5 more years and it is necessary to find the ways to
overthrow the power as soon as possible. The Heritage leader calls on
all presidents who "were elected but did not rule Armenia, as well as
the political forces that were elected but did not become a
parliamentary majority" to join him and conduct a joint fight "against
the evil".
To note, Petros Makeyan, Chairman of the Democratic Motherland Party,
which has been a member of the Armenian National Congress before, was
also present at the meeting. So were Hovhannes Igityan, former member
of the Board of the Armenian National Movement Party, which no longer
exists, and Armen Rustamyan, Head of the ARF Dashnaktsutyun Faction.
Rustamyan said that to make the ruling regime resign and to avoid
bloodshed, the opposition should use soft power in its fight. He
reiterated the ARFD's position that it is necessary to change the
governance system as soon as possible and to switch to the
parliamentary regime. "The Parliament should have the people who
deserve being in Parliament, not the ones the President or the ruling
party wants to see", Rustamyan said.
He thinks that the levers of the anti-corruption fight should belong
to the opposition. "The Prime Minister cannot fight corruption,
because he is corrupted himself. If the authorities really want to
fight corruption, the relevant commission set up by the Government
should be headed by the opposition", said Rustamyan.
From: A. Papazian