ULP RETURNS THE SAME TO YEREVAN
17:39:07 – 08/05/2009
Interview by ARMAN GALOYAN
LRAGIR.AM
Interview with the head of the United Labour Party Gurgen Arsenyan
– Your party is not running for Mayor. How would you comment on this
fact?
– Our party decided not to run for two reasons. The first is that
Yerevan gave few votes to our party during the 2007 parliamentary
elections. In other words, Yerevan decided that the OYP, the
Heritage, the BHK are more familiar to it than we-the UPL. We treat
Yerevan in the same way. We answer in the same way. If Yerevan does
not want our service, we are not going to force it. Let them live as
they want.
– How do you evaluate the chance of the opposition in the Yerevan
Mayor election?
-The opposition will have many votes it will be the first or the
second. Let us live and we will see. All this depends on the choice of
the Yerevan residents, on how they imagine their city, how they
evaluate the past and how they see the future.
– The ARF Dashnaktsutyun became opposition, what do you think about
this decision will they be able to be an alternative for the HAK?
– In order to become real opposition, the ARF Dashnaktsutyun has to
work hard for one year to prove that it is really a strong
oppositional force.
The current opposition, the Armenian National Congress brings up
important questions for the public. For example, the opposition is
able to prove that this state is a not a state but a clan-oligarchic
system. Now the ARF has to express its opinion in this connection, as
when this opinion was voiced, the Dashnaktsutyun was a part of the
government. And, as soon as the Dashnaktsutyun expresses its opinion,
its supporters will make conclusions if the party is opposition or
not. We witnessed the same scenario at least three times when a quasi
opposition formed and then it was found out not to be what it said to
be in reality.
– How do you think, will there be breaches during this election and
will it be followed by post-election developments?
– The post election developments need to have conditions, that is one
of the candidates should be sure that the results of the election are
not true. After the results, the political forces will be able to
decide if the latter coincides with the reality or not. Therefore,
post election developments are also possible.
– What do you think; does the government have political will to hold
free and fair elections?
– You are asking a very strange question, of course it does not have.
Interview by ARMAN GALOYAN