"POWER OF PARTY IS NOT PROVIDED BY NUMBER OF MEMBERS AND FINANCIAL RESOURCES," LSPA CHAIRMAN BELIEVES

Noyan Tapan
Feb 21 2007

YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 21, NOYAN TAPAN. "The Labour Socialist Party of
Armenia" (LSPA) which has 2500 members at present has not decided yet
to participate in the coming parliamentary elections or not. Party
Chairman Movses Shahverdian stated about it at the February 21 press
conference. In his words, power of parties is not at all provided by
the number of members and financial resources. "A party must first
of all have good ideas what one can not say about today’s political
field," M.Shahverdian noticed. And the LSPA, in his words, is one of
those rare parties "even in the name of which an idea is evident."

According to the LSPA Chairman’s estimation, Armenia, as a newly
independent country, was to form a political system, clarify national,
state problems and create a basis for democracy in the country. But,
in M. Shahverdian’s words, "a complete mess exists today in all these
spheres of the republic."