DAVID HAKOBYAN: I EARNED THE RIGHT TO MY MANDATE

/PanARMENIAN.Net/
04.06.2009

/PanARMENIA N.Net/ "Society and journalists are eager to know whether
Elders’ Council will deprive David Hakobyan of his mandate. The
entire burden of political responsibility lies upon Armenian
National Congress," Marxist Party’s leader David Hakobyan told a
press conference in Yerevan. "Someone came to me yesterday with
a written statement expressing our party’s intention to declare a
boycott. He asked me to sign the document, and I told him that for
declaring a general boycott it was necessary to have a list with
the signatures of 130 MPs. I didn’t sign anything because we are
against boycotts. I have struggled for ANC and opposition for two
years. I don’t want to seize a mandate; I have earned the right
to have one," Mr. Hakobyan said. According to the Marxist leader,
ANC is facing a choice: to follow the tactics of boycott or seize
mandates and "crash" Republicans with its "own weapon". "We, the
Marxists, have come to the conclusion that opposition needs those
mandates as political tools. Thus, during presidential elections,
ANC obtained 150 thousand votes and now they have only 70 thousand
votes. This means we’re losing our electorate, i.e. 14 mandates that
could exert psychological pressure upon authorities. We find such
step ‘political idiotism," Hakobyan said. "If, after working for 3
months, we see that our work is fruitless, we can resign without any
problem. Nobody understands the style of my criticism. The principal
task of each Marxist and politician is to re-educate rather than
trample on criminal and political villains. Mr. Hakobyan finds
that people in Armenia do not properly understand the meaning of
the word "revolution". "Neither the Republic of Armenia and nor
political entities can stage revolution, without realizing its
meaning. Revolution means to change public economic formation,
i. e. make transition from capital to social-liberal economy. That’s
why, revolution is out of the question, especially in Armenia,"
he said.