REPUBLICANS ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR HOVIK ABRAHAMYAN

Lragir.am
12 May 06

Hrant Khachatryan, the leader of the Constitutional Right Union, said
in a news conference on May 12 that the attempt of breaking up the
faction of the Orinats Yerkir through businessmen, who proved
instrumental to this, may similarly be applied to Dashnaktsutiun and
the Republicans if the latter also try to play an individual game or
become more democratic. `At least over the past two years I have heard
separate members and influential members of Dashnaktsutiun and the
Republican Party say that the conditions of the clan for the
government parties are becoming increasingly severe,’ says Hrant
Khachatryan. He says a situation has occurred when owners of big
businesses, who are members of some political party, tend to look for
an exit.

The majority of owners of big businesses, who entered the government
with some political force, is in fact departing from their political
parties, their interests and name, and seeks to draw closer to the
president administration. I heard similar complaints from the
Republican Party, namely Hovik Abrahamyan. When we blame the
Republicans for this or that activity of Hovik Abrahamyan, they always
deny him. They say Hovik Abrahamyan is no more a Republican, it has
been a long time he is not with us,’ says Hrant Khachatryan. He
mentions that the existing reality reveals the imperfection of the
system:the government does not view political parties as a basis for
forming a systemof governance.