MANUK GASPARIAN: OPPOSITION DID NOT MANAGE TO UNITE FIRST OF ALL DUE TO PERSONAL AMBITIONS

Noyan Tapan
Mar 01 2007

YEREVAN, MARCH 1, NOYAN TAPAN. The Bargavach Hayastan (Prosperous
Armenia) and Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) will make a majority
in the future parliament, at that "the number of Bargavach Hayastan’s
deputies at NA will exceed the number of RPA’s deputies by 3-4." Manuk
Gasparian, Chairman of Democratic Way Party, forecast this at the March
1 press conference. And OYP, ARFD, PPA, National Unity, as well as the
Democratic Way Party headed by him, as M. Gasparian affirmed, should
fight "for their place in the sun." The Democratic Way Party leader
said that a number of opposition forces, in particular, the People’s
Party of Armenia, Hanrapetutiun (Republic), Orinats Yerkir (Country
of Law) and Zharangutiun (Heritage) did not agree to unite with the
Democratic Way Party, from which M. Gasparian drew a conclusion that
they "considered him as a weak person." And on the whole, in his
words, the oppositionists did not unite first of all due to their
personal ambitions. M. Gasparian said that he is the first person on
the joint preelectoral list of the Democratic Way Party and the Union
of National Democrats, the second is Chairman of Union of National
Democrats Arshak Sadoyan, the third is member of RA National Assembly
National Unity faction Aghasi Arshakian and the third economist Edvard
Aghajanov. He said that the name of A. Arshakian currently receiving
hospital treatment was registered in the National Unity’s proportional
list introduced to CEC on February 27, approximately in one of 30th
out of 25 places and the Democratic Way Party gave him the third
place of its list "for gladdening the latter." M. Gasparian said
that A. Sadoyan will also take part in the parliamentary elections
by majoritarian system, at Yerevan electoral district N 12.

In M.Gasparian’s words, he is happy to cooperate with A. Sadoyan and
is convinced that together they will succeed without fail.