IN HRANT KHACHATRIAN’S WORDS, POLITICAL PROCESSES CHANGING SITUATION IN
COUNTRY MAY TAKE PLACE AFTER MAY 12

YEREVAN, MARCH 9, NOYAN TAPAN. "I do not think that after the elections
the opposition camp will replace today’s parliamentary majority, but
there are preconditions that political processes changing the situation
in the country can take place after May 12." Hrant Khachatrian,
Chairman of Constitutional Law Union, expressed such an opinion at the
March 9 press conference. In his words, the start of the elections does
not correspond to domestic and foreign political challenges of Armenia.
In H. Khachatrian’s words, the situation is like 1996 when the
opposition was discussing the issue of coming up with big alliances.
But it did not happen so this time, as both the opposition and the
authorities preferred to go to elections without uniting. H.
Khachatrian said that forces acting in pro-governmental and opposition
fields come up not as political parties, but as organizations solving
juncture issues. "The expectations of political parties acting in the
pro-governmental field are not political ambitions, but at best
ambitions to make part of power and the wish to run this power to their
taste, the way they like," the CLU Chairman said. H. Khachatrian also
said that he intends to leave politics. For the present, he is engaged
in restoring CLU and only after this he will make a final decision.