SERGE SARGSIAN ANNOUNCED IMPEACHMENT TO RA PRESIDENT TAKING PARLIAMENTARY MAJORITY, NDP PARTY LEADER STATES
Noyan Tapan
May 24 2007
YEREVAN, MAY 24, NOYAN TAPAN. It will be wrong to conclude that
the authorities through falsifications took away victory from the
opposition: the opposition from the very start was doomed to failure,
as they failed to take part in the May 12 parliamentary elections
with a united ideological front. Shavarsh Kocharian, Chairman of
National Democratic Party, expressed such opinion at the May 24 press
conference. In his words, "in case of committing the same mistakes"
the oppositionists will also fail in the 2008 presidential elections.
According to S. Kocharian’s observation, in the years of Armenia’s
independence the international observers never registered elections
meeting European standards in the country. In comparison with the
previous elections this time monitoring missions registered some
progress, which in NDP leader’s words, indeed happened. S. Kocharian
reminded that the 2003 elections were accompanied by cases of "beating,
arrests, throwing out empowered persons from polling stations."
Touching upon the activity of Impeachment bloc, S. Kocharian said
that for him it is not clear whom this political force wishes to
announce impeachment.
"It is impossible to announce impeachment to any RA MP or RA Prime
Minister," he said and added thaat if members of this bloc strive
for removing RA President, "Serge Sargsian has already announced
impeachment taking parliamentary majority."