BARGAVACH HAYASTAN TO GO TO PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS ALONE

YEREVAN, JULY 25, NOYAN TAPAN. The Bargavach Hayastan (Prosperous
Armenia) party headed by big Armenian businessman, RA MP Gagik
Tsarukian will go to the parliamentary elections of 2007 alone.

"The party Chairman, Mr Tsarukian, said that we will go to the
parliamentary elections alone," Vardan Vardanian, Chairman of party’s
Political Board, said in his interview to radio Liberty citing
Tsarukian’s speech made at the July 24 meeting in the building of
Sundukian theater. "This is the decision of the party Chairman. I am
convinced that the political board also will make such a decision,"
he mentioned.

The radio Liberty’s sources inform that during the July 24 meeting
Gagik Tsarukian also declared that Bargavach Hayastan "will win the
parliamentary elections," as well as assured that they are ready to
cooperate with the political forces that wish free and fair elections
to be held in the country.

According to the same sources, the Gagik Tsarukian – Viktor Dallakian
bloc can be also considered as fully established.

Vardan Vardanian opposed to the statement of RA Defence Minister,
RPA Board newly elected Chairman, Serge Sargsian that Bargavach
Hayastan does not exist as a party yet. Vardanian insisted that
Bargavach Hayastan has been acting for already three years and has
210 thousand members and more than 300 party offices. "I can precisely
say that the party exists, it has a history of three
years, it has held its congress. So, I do not think there will be such
conversations," he said.

According to Vardanian, people come to their party consolidating
around an idea. In the July 24 meeting speech Gagik Tsarukian said
that those having joined the party with the expectation of money
were mistaken as "there will be no money." "Indeed it will be this
way. The party will not give money, the party is not a barn of money,"
the Chairman of the Bargavach Hayastan party’s Political Board said.