EX-AUTHORITIES ARE NOT FOR THE CHANGE OF CONSTITUTION

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| 15:02:36 | 15-06-2005 | Politics |

“The authorities will try to forge 100 thousand votes”, said Hovhannes
Hovhannisyan, leader of the Armenian Liberal Progressive Party in
connection with the coming constitutional referendum. According to
him, the number of electors – 2 million 400 thousand – was fixed with
that purpose.

During today’s seminar titled “The Necessity of Constitutional Reforms”
Mr. Hovhannisyan claimed that the authorities will not come to an
agreement with the Venice Commission experts and “will try to adopt
the reforms with a strong hand”. “Our authorities tend to trick the
International structures and reproduce themselves. This is their aim”,
concluded Hovhannes Hovhannisyan.

Before that he tries to understand what the opposition must do
if “Kocharyan theoretically accepts the conditions of the Venice
Commission”. “I think the opposition must make a decision”, concluded
the reporter.

The next speaker was Vahagn Khachatryan, the ex-advisor of Levon
Ter-Petrosyan. He said that the violation of the Constitution is a
common thing for Robert Kocharyan, and the only thing to understand is
that what happens to the violator. “There is not a single law about
those who violate the Constitution, and we do not have any variant
of calling Robert Kocharyan to take the responsibility for what he
has done”, said Mr. Khachatryan.

The latter does not understand why the opposition tries to use the
legislative language speaking to the authorities. According to him,
not the Constitution must be reformed, but the authorities must be
dethroned as soon as possible. “The Constitution gives us the right,
simply we are too weak. There are many variant – riots, meetings,
etc”, said the ex-advisor.

According to the member of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation
Administration David Shahnazaryan, Robert Kocharyan reforms the
Constitution for himself, and he sees himself as his successor. “He
thinks he will be forever sitting in that place, but forever he will
be sitting in a completely different place”, foresaw the ex-head of
the RA National Security.