S. DEMIRCHIAN: "OVERCOMING OF THE CRISIS DEMANDS POLITICAL SOLUTIONS"
By Marietta Khachatrian

AZG Armenian Daily
28/03/2008

Post-election

"The authorities should understand that it is not possible to overcome
this crisis by repressive methods. Vice versa, the gap between the
authorities and the society is getting wider. The problem is not
between persons and political forces; it is between the authorities
and the society. And it’s a self-deception that they have 70 percent
support of the society", said Wednesday Chairman of People’s Party
of Armenia (PPA) Stepan Demirchian in an interview to "A1+".

According to him, it is necessary to separate people who committed
crimes from those who expressed their political position. At the same
time the people who committed forgery and violence should be punished.

According to PPA Chairman, today’s parliament does not reflect public
mood, and the created crisis is possible to overcome only by just
elections.

The authorities don’t take real steps of dialogue, though it’s evident
that overcoming of the crisis demands political solutions. According
to S. Demirchian, one of those real steps is to stop political
persecutions, willfulness and illegality.