OPPOSITION HAS NO FORMULA OF FURTHER STRUGGLE YET, HOVHANNES HOVHANNISIAN CONSIDERS

Noyan Tapan
Jun 12 2007

YEREVAN, JUNE 12, NOYAN TAPAN. RA authorities celebrate their
"crushing" victory in the parliamentary elections and the opposition
has no formula of further political struggle yet. This is the
characteristics of Hovhannes Hovhannisian, the Chairman of the
Liberal-Progressive Party of Armenia, given to the post-electoral
developments in the home political sphere at the June 12 press
conference. As he affirmed, the further events depend on the
circumstance how much these two political poles will be ready for
adopting new values, new approaches.

In H. Hovhannisian’s words, once more "a very weak government" was
formed in Armenia. He added that the National Assembly commissions
have more or less higher quality, "though the staff of the current
parliament creates an impression as if they picked up people from
country’s fields, gardens and took them to the parliament for them
to solve some issues."

As H. Hovhannisian forecast, either there will be new positive
developments in Armenia or the country will stick in the swamp. And
as he affirmed, opposition forces should unite for having positive
developments. At the same time, Hovhannisian found it difficult to
say whether that consolidation will happen. He said that today there
are a number of factors hampering opposition’s unification: preferring
their own interests to public-state ones, personal ambitions, career
ambitions of some politicians.