SHAVARSH KOCHARIAN: "AFTER ELECTIONS OPPOSITION TO BE MORE UNITED, AND AUTHORITIES TO BE CONTRARY"
Noyan Tapan
Mar 22 2007
YEREVAN, MARCH 22, NOYAN TAPAN. To secure own success at the May
12 parliamentary elections, it is necessary for the authorities of
Armenia that the people’s participation in the elections is rather
passive. Shavarsh Kocharian, the Chairman of the National Democratic
Party (NDP), a deputy of the National Assembly expressed such an
opinion at the March 22 press conference. In his words, to keep bulks
striving for system changes far from the electoral process, the ruling
forces fostered a special strategy, that’s, to assure the society
that results of the elections are already decided beforehand. In
Sh.Kocharian’s words, those numerous offices and posters of the
pro-ruling parties, with which all the marzes and streets of the
republic "are full," prove that strategy. In the NA deputy’s opinion,
the very extended character of the mentioned offices makes think that
"the elections results have also been all-embracingly solved." In
Sh. Kocharian’s words the way of thinking as if the opposing forces’
success is provided only by unification is sown only in the Armenian
people’s consciousness. Whereas, in the NDP Chairman’s words, on the
eve of the revolution in Georgia the opposing leaders did not present
themselves with a joint block: their unification took place already
after the elections. Sh. Kocharian expressed an opinion that though
the Armenian opposition does not jointly go to the NA elections, as
a result of them, however, "the opposing forces will be more united,
and the authorities will be the contrary."