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Troika Rally: Tsarukyan calls for leadership of "new quality"
POLITICS | 24.10.14 | 19:47
http://armenianow.com/news/politics/57940/armenia_opposition_troika_rally_gagik_tsarukyan
Gagik Tsarukyan, the leader of the opposition-leaning Prosperous
Armenia Party (PAP), has called for leadership and politics of new
quality as he addressed on Friday evening another well-attended rally
in Yerevan's Liberty Square organized by the informal coalition of
three parliamentary minority parties.
He called for breaking the monopoly of the current government, saying
that the emerging movement was for a transition of power in a peaceful
way rather than through a Maidan-like revolution. "But stagnation
should not be an alternative to Maidan," he emphasized, in reference
to the change of government in Ukraine through what became known as
Maidan protests earlier this year.
In his speech Tsarukyan repeatedly emphasized that he will remain
standing "next to the people" until the movement achieves success,
urging the current leadership to comply with the troika's earlier
demands concerning social and economic issues. At the same time, the
PAP leader announced that the movement will be forming headquarters of
activists throughout Armenia that will be ready for mobilization
"whenever is necessary".
Tsarukyan said that the option of organizing a sit-in could be
discussed at the next rally, but neither he nor the leaders of the
Armenian National Congress (ANC) and Heritage, the two other parties
making up the troika, announced the date of the next rally.
In his speech ANC leader Levon Ter-Petrosyan, who unsuccessfully ran
for presidency against current President Serzh Sargsyan in 2008, said
that the three parties had a common strategy of achieving a power
change, but said they would not make their tactics public.
Heritage Party leader Raffi Hovannisian, who was Sargsyan's main
challenger in the 2013 presidential election, repeated his demand to
the current administration that he made back then - to share the power
with the people and resign. He called on the leadership to organize
preterm presidential and parliamentary elections within the next six
months.
POLITICS | 24.10.14 | 19:47
http://armenianow.com/news/politics/57940/armenia_opposition_troika_rally_gagik_tsarukyan
Gagik Tsarukyan, the leader of the opposition-leaning Prosperous
Armenia Party (PAP), has called for leadership and politics of new
quality as he addressed on Friday evening another well-attended rally
in Yerevan's Liberty Square organized by the informal coalition of
three parliamentary minority parties.
He called for breaking the monopoly of the current government, saying
that the emerging movement was for a transition of power in a peaceful
way rather than through a Maidan-like revolution. "But stagnation
should not be an alternative to Maidan," he emphasized, in reference
to the change of government in Ukraine through what became known as
Maidan protests earlier this year.
In his speech Tsarukyan repeatedly emphasized that he will remain
standing "next to the people" until the movement achieves success,
urging the current leadership to comply with the troika's earlier
demands concerning social and economic issues. At the same time, the
PAP leader announced that the movement will be forming headquarters of
activists throughout Armenia that will be ready for mobilization
"whenever is necessary".
Tsarukyan said that the option of organizing a sit-in could be
discussed at the next rally, but neither he nor the leaders of the
Armenian National Congress (ANC) and Heritage, the two other parties
making up the troika, announced the date of the next rally.
In his speech ANC leader Levon Ter-Petrosyan, who unsuccessfully ran
for presidency against current President Serzh Sargsyan in 2008, said
that the three parties had a common strategy of achieving a power
change, but said they would not make their tactics public.
Heritage Party leader Raffi Hovannisian, who was Sargsyan's main
challenger in the 2013 presidential election, repeated his demand to
the current administration that he made back then - to share the power
with the people and resign. He called on the leadership to organize
preterm presidential and parliamentary elections within the next six
months.