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OYP YESTERDAY, REPUBLLICAN PARTY TODAY, BUT NOT ARF
[07:35 pm] 26 May, 2006
There is information according to which Samvel
Balasanyan, the head of the Orinats Yerkir party and
Hovhannes Margaryan are going to leave the party. They
weren’t’ present at the briefing today, and Gagik
Mkheyan and Gagik Avetisyan refrained from commenting
on the information. «We have not heard of it», they
said. They did not have information about the people
leaving the regional structures of the party either.
They only mentioned that during the 10-year history of
the party many people left it, but the main party
remained.
When one of the journalists asked, «And what about
Sergo? », Gagik Avetisyan noted, «The main part of the
Orinats Yerkir is the people». The deputies did not
have information about pressure inflicted upon the
regional structures of the party in order to crash it.
By the way, during the briefings the National Unity
and the Orinats Yerkir party expressed readiness not
to continue their quarrel and not to answer different
statements about their relations.
Meanwhile, the pedagogues who left the Orinats Yerkir,
come to the Republican party. `The Republican party
does not have the problem of republicanizing anything.
The fact that we did not argue about the post of the
Minister of Education,’ Galoust Sahakyan, head of the
Republican Party faction in NA said. According to him,
not only teachers, but also doctors and other
specialists become member of their party, and the fact
that on May 2 120 teachers became member of the party
is not a unique one.
In contrast to the Republican party, it is not an easy
thing to become member of the Armenian Revolutionary
Federation. «The ARF does not have the problem of
increasing the number of its members», head of the
faction Hrayr Karapetyan said. He announced that it is
not right when you make somebody member of a party
contrary to his will. He added that taking the post of
the Minister of Education the ARF is not going to
force the teachers to join them.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
