NOWHERE WAS ORINATS YERKIR WELCOMED

Lragir.am
12 May 06

Orinats Yerkir becomes opposition, stated Speaker Arthur Baghdasaryan
in a press conference on May 12, after he announced about his
resignation and the secession of his political party from the
coalition.

`Certainly, we become opposition. We become an opposition. We become
with our notions, our approaches. People recognize us. People know
us. They know what took place. Today the majority of the society has
oppositionist moods. Each has their place, we are not going to take
someone else’s place, wehave our own path,’ said Arthur
Baghdasaryan. He does not think that they will be welcomed it the
opposition. Arthur Baghdasaryan even believes that they may receive
blows, as always.

`I should tell you that we have never been welcomed anywhere. Did the
government welcome us? We received blows since the first day we
entered the coalition. Now if you think that we will not receive blows
in the opposition, we will. For us, however, people’s opinion is
important,’ says the leader of the Orinats Yerkir. He mentions that
they will follow their own path. This path, according to Arthur
Baghdasaryan, involves the ideas, programs and values that the Orinats
Yerkir bears. However, the leader of the Orinats Yerkir believes that
they will have allies.

`There are always allies, there are always political forces, figures
who accept our system of values, our vision,’ says Arthur
Baghdasaryan. He emphasizes a straightforward behavior before people
for the party members and other citizens to believe in the honesty and
frankness of the Orinats Yerkir. Arthur Baghdasaryan mentioned that
their slogan during the campaign for parliament is still up to date:
`With people, for people.’

`We could keep silent, we could shut an eye on a scandalous
sell-off. We could say nothing. If you think that as a speaker of the
National AssemblyI could not take one or two buildings for myself, you
are mistaken. I did not want. We did not live that way. We thought
there are problems, we must tryto solve the problems for the country
and people,’ said Arthur Baghdasaryan.