PETROS MAKEYAN DOES NOT EXCLUDE POSSIBILITY OF GEORGIAN VARIANT OF POWER SHIFT IN ARMENIA

YEREVAN, DECEMBER 22, NOYAN TAPAN. The only achievement of Armenia in
2006 was chess victories, but the authorities try to use even them for
their own purposes. Petros Makeyan, Chairman of the Democratic Homeland
Party, declared this at the December 22 meeting with journalists. In
his words, we can consider as positive the circumstance that the
Nagorno Karabakh war was not resumed in 2006, which, however, is not
the achievement of the Armenian authorities. As P.Makeyan affirmed, the
recent murder of Nalbandian village head has a political character. In
his words, all recent scandalous murders are "brawls within the
power." "Under these conditions when the authorities started to
shoot at one another for retaining the power, the opposition should
understand that they should put aside all ambitions and cooperate
for the sake of their goal in order to take the country out of
this situation," P.Makeyan said. Speaking about the plans for 2007,
P.Makeyan said that the Alternative initiative and the Democratic
Homeland Party making part of it will struggle "for seizing the
power in Armenia." In his words, they should pass several stages
for achieving this goal, one of which is moving political processes
from the sphere of charity to political sphere. P.Makeyan said that
they should do the respective work with the public. In particular,
in early February of the coming year the Alternative plans to hold a
large rally in Yerevan. In the words of the Democratic Homeland Party
chairman, the situation’s outcome is possible both during elections and
before or after them. He did not exclude the Georgian variant of power
shift, as well as the Armenian variant of 1990-s when the power levers
and resources were completely in the hands of Soviet authorities,
but the Armenian National Movement managed to gain victory.