ORINATS ERKIR PARTY IN FAVOR OF ARTUR BAGHDASARIAN’S RESIGNING FROM POST OF RA NATIONAL ASSEMBLY SPEAKER
Noyan Tapan
May 11 2006
YEREVAN, MAY 11, NOYAN TAPAN. The whole Orinats Erkir party is in favor
of the party chairman Artur Baghdasarian’s resigning from the post of
the Speaker of the RA National Assembly and the party’s leaving the
coalition. Secretary of the NA Orinats Erkir faction Heghine Bisharian
made this statement during a press conference on May 11. The deputy
noted that personally, she takes this view and thinks that Artur
Baghdasarian also shares her opinion. “Some political forces exceed
the time permitted for a move that the NA Speaker has clear positions
and views, that he is an honest and straightforward man and really
wants to change something in the country,” H. Bisharian noted. In
her words, “large-scale attacks” have recently been made against the
Orinats Erkir Party”: “Just like in the world of the French fashion,
it has become a fashion to make attacks against Artur Baghdasarian and
the OEP.” Nevertheless, according to her, the mood of the party is a
bellicose one. As regards the fact that some deputies – businessmen
withdrew from the party, the faction secretary said that it was
an unexpected thing to her, because their relations with the party
chairman and the other deputies of the faction were very close and
recently became even closer. Stating that these deputies are carrying
out someone’s will, Hegine Beshirian noted she could not say whose
will it is and she advised to ask this question to the deputies who
left the party. In her words, such things would not have happened,
if businessmen had not been dependent on politics: “I don’t think
that we are the first and last ones – such a thing can happen to
any political force and businessman.” She did not give the exact
number of the deputies leaving the party and their names, adding
that the party will issue a statement soon. The OEP secretary said
that the fact that these deputies have left the party is not a great
misfortune for the OEP, and regrdless of the number of deputies who
will remain in the faction, it will continue functioning effectively
and will maintain its political role: “We are on the right path and
we state clearly what we have to say, regardless of whether we are
in the faction or outside it. We will continue doing so: if someone
likes or dislikes the policy of the Orinats Erkir Party, it is their
business.” Heghine Bisharian also assured that “the deputies who
left were not those solving the party’s financial problems, so the
party will not suffer financially.” As for the upcoming elections,
according to her, the OEP has set itself the task to prepare seriously
and make every effort so that these elections will be transparent.