PEOPLE’S PARTY OF ARMENIA IS READY FOR THIRD, FOURTH, AND SO ON
Lragir.am
19-09-2007 17:41:26
The People’s Party of Armenia participated in the presidential
elections in 1998 and 2003 and if necessity occurs, it will put up a
candidate, said the secretary of the People’s Party of Armenia Grigor
Harutiunyan who was hosted at the Pastark Club on September 19.
However, he says, in the situation that has occurred in the country
the opposition needs to get together to battle the administrative
resource. "I am not ingenuous and I understand there will be other
candidates. Such unification is impossible. Sometimes they are
put up by the government, overwhelmed with ambitions. In any case,
it is already outlining who will win the election, like in 2003,
and people are already orienting, so our approach is consolidation,
unification," Grigor Harutiunyan says. According to him, it does not
matter which force will get them together because with real solidarity
victory is guaranteed.
He says there is no need for a new opposition, new approaches
are necessary rather. He does not want to give the names of likely
candidates of the opposition. He only says the candidate will become
known in the course of time. "At least we try our best to put up a
candidate," Grigor Harutiunyan says, adding that otherwise they will
apply the double experience of the People’s Party of Armenia in running
in the presidential election. However, its expedience arouses doubt, on
which we asked a question to Grigor Harutiunyan. The experience of the
PPA in 1998 and 2003, when Karen Demirchyan and Stepan Demirchyan were
running for presidency respectively, ended in victory, the PPA states,
but it also involved inability to protect their victory which people
witnessed. Is it expedient to apply this experience for the third time?
"We must try for the third time, and the fourth time. Or you leave
politics, you do not struggle, you tolerate everything. We do not
tolerate, we struggle. It is not our fault that our victory was
taken away from us. The government is criminal. People must draw
conclusions," Grigor Harutiunyan says.