REPUBLICAN DEPUTY: OPPOSITION CRITIQUE A BITTER PILL FOR DEMOCRACY

Panorama.am
22:08 08/10/2007

"In general, I respect the activity of the opposition, both now and
in the past," Davit Harutyunyan, Armenia’s delegation leader to the
European Parliament, said today at a press conference in the National
Assembly in response to a question as to whether opposition members in
this year’s Armenian delegation exposed the country’s "dirty laundry"
as they had in the past.

"I think it is correct for the opposition to raise certain
issues. There are no secrets here, and not matter how distasteful it
might be to talk about a colleague’s misdeeds, it is the bitter pill
needed to become a democratic country, to move forward. For this,
I respect the opposition’s critical approach," Harutyunyan added.

He confessed that at the European Parliament sessions opposition
figures in the delegation spoke critically about their country. But
Harutyunyan considers this as something normal, because "this is what
makes the opposition what it is." Besides this, Harutyunyan said,
it has already become known that the delegation’s work was considered
as active.

We note that the delegation consisted of opposition figures Raffi
Hovhannisian, from Heritage, and Mher Shahgeldyan, from Legal State.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress