GARNIK MARGARIAN: IN CASE OF OPPOSITION’S PASSIVITY CRIME WILL SEIZE
POWER IN COUNTRY
YEREVAN, JANUARY 12, NOYAN TAPAN. "None of attempts of the opposition
to change the situation in the country were crowned with success last
year. I estimate the political year of 2006 as a year of opposition’s
bad work." Garnik Margarian, Chairman of the Homeland and Honor Party,
declared this in his interview to Noyan Tapan correspondent. He
regretted to say that in 2006 like in 2005 the opposition did not
manage to consolidate, to which in his opinion, ambitions of some
politicians and their incapacity to go beyond the limits of narrow
party interests impeded.
At the same time, G.Margarian said that the opposition has done much
within the framework of anti-criminal movement. "To some extent the
opposition managed to break the situation. True, we are far from
declaring about achieving success in fighting crime." In his opinion,
the Bargavach Hayastan (Prosperous Armenia) Party, RPA and the
People’s Party of Tigran Karapetian "prepare a criminal coup in the
country."
G.Margarian supposed that the year 2007 will be a year of sudden
changes. However, in case of passivity of opposition forces, unless
they are organized and consolidated, in G.Margarian’s opinion, crime
will seize the power in the country or power shift will take place
within the power itself as this happened once in 1998.