IN ARAM HAROUTIUNIAN’S WORDS, UNEQUAL AND UNFAIR CONDITIONS ARE CREATED FOR POLITICAL FORCES PARTICIPATING IN ELECTIONS

Noyan Tapan
Apr 18 2007

YEREVAN, APRIL 18, NOYAN TAPAN. The National Agreement ("Azgayin
Hamadzaynutiun") party will make a qualitative change in the political
field of Armenia, even in the case of having a faction consisting of
five-six people at the new parliament. Party Chairman Aram Haroutiunian
made such a statement at the debate organized on April 18. In his
words, there is an "ideological vacuum" in the country today, which
they are going to liquidate. In A. Haroutiunian’s words, a normal
political competition is also absent what is a consequence of created
unequal conditions for propaganda.

A. Haroutiunian stated that during the previous elections the party
headed by him lost the got votes because of the opposition as its
members presented at the commissions, in his words, "brotherly"
divided them. Besides, according to his observation, "none of the
opposition representatives found a force in himself to throw away the
mandate to show the people that they are ready to make any offering."

In response to it, another participant of the debate, Chairman of
the National Democratic Party Shavarsh Kocharian mentioned that "the
mandate is not for being thrown away but for serving the people." And
in his words, not the opposition but the authorities are guilty for
all the negative phenomena existing in the country as the opposers
simply have not enough levers to influence on the process of affairs.