LEADER OF HNCHAK PARTY CONSIDERS THAT BY ITS ACTIONS OPPOSITION CONTRIBUTED TO FULFILMENT OF AUTHORITIES’ SCENARIO
Noyan Tapan
Mar 01 2007
YEREVAN, MARCH 1, NOYAN TAPAN. The Hnchak Social-Democratic Party
will run for the elections independently and only by proportional
system." Party leader Lyudmila Sargsian reported this at the March 1
press conference. She declared that Hnchak being one of traditional
Armenian parties exerted all efforts for uniting the opposition
forces. However, in her words, "today we can establish that all
attempts of uniting the opposition failed." L. Sargsian declared that
the big political forces bear the main responsibility for opposition’s
breaking. "The opposition deciding to run for the elections one
by one was not able to counteract to the mechanisms created by
the authorities. They should not have put the people in conditions
for the people not to know whom to elect." In L. Sargsian’s words,
the main reason of opposition’s failure to unite were the personal
ambitions of its leaders and preference of narrow party interests to
general ones. She did not agree to the statement of representatives
of People’s Party of Armenia that they did everything possible for
uniting the opposition. In her words, the conditions "dictated by PPA
were primordially unacceptable for everybody, as it was impossible to
give PPA opposition members majority of places in the proportional
list. L. Sargsian declared that the initiative of opposition’s
unification mainly belongs to the Zharangutiun (Heritage) Party
and its leader Raffi Hovannisian, as well as to the Hanrapetutiun
(Republic) Party and the National-Democratic Union. She mentioned
that R. Hovannisian was quite sincerely ready to make many concessions
for the sake of forming a united bloc.