Karapet Rubinyan pondering over joining Free Democrats party

13:18 – 12.06.11

A veteran member of the Armenian Pan-National Movement party (HHSh),
who recently quit it, has been offered to join a newly-launched
political party Free Democrats and is pondering over the offer.

Speaking to Tert.am, Karapet Rubinyan dismissed rumors that he too
personally was involved in the launching of the Free Democrats party.

`As far as we are informed from the press the party is not formed yet,
it is in the making of it; I had zero participation in it,’ said
Rubinyan. `I was simply offered a membership and am now pondering
whether or not to accept that offer.’

Free Democrats party has been launched by a group of former HHSh party
members, including the party’s former board chairman Khachatur
Kokobelyan.

US Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch visited the party office recently. The
visit kicked up media reports saying several former HHSh members are
going to join the new party, including former Foreign Minister Alik
Arzumanyan and former HHSh board chairman Ararat Zurabyan.

`As long as I am informed, the latter too, like me, are pondering over
their membership to the party,’ said Karapet Rubinyan.

Further, he explained that he would join the Free Democrats if he is
convinced they are really a progressive party. While rejection of the
offer would be substantiated by the fact that he recently quit HHSh,
the party Rubinyan has ever belonged to.

`And I feel very good as a politically fully free person. My dilemma
is between around these two poles’

Tert.am