"ZHARANGUTIUN" PARTY TO BE "SURPRISE" OF NEW PARLIAMENT THIS TIME, SAMVEL NIKOYAN SAYS

Noyan Tapan
Apr 20 2007

YEREVAN, APRIL 20, NOYAN TAPAN. 6-7 parties will enter the parliament
after the May 12 elections. If the NA "surprise" the previous time was
"the ULP, Zharangutiun (Heritage) party will be this time." Samvel
Nikoyan, a RA NA deputy, member of the RPA Council made such a
statement at the April 20 press conference. But, in his opinion,
unlike the ULP, which did nothing new at the parliament and did not
bring freshness, "Zharangutiun will bring new speech, new approach
and new way of thinking to the NA." "I will be very glad to see Raffi
Hovannisian at the parliament instead of many many other. Finally,
he will not humble the picture of the parliament, but will raise it,"
S. Nikoyan emphasized.

He also mentioned that according to surveys, the Republican Party
of Armenia, Bargavach Hayastan (Prosperous Armenia), Orinats Yerkir
(Country of Law), Armenian Revolutionary Federation and Zharangutiun
parties will overcome 5%.

According to S. Nikoyan’s estimation, the propaganda mission is in
general held in civilized conditions, and there is no mutual hatred
or serious competition among the authorities and opposition.

"The opposition understood that it did not got a positive image
by scolding the authorities. That was the reason that the Bargavach
Hayastan party, entering the political field, immediately attracted the
society’s attention," the deputy mentioned, adding that the Bargavach
Hayastan party was created to take the votes of the opposition.