Armenia’s centre-left parties set up union

Armenia’s centre-left parties set up union

Arminfo, Yerevan
23 May 05

Armenia’s four centre-left political parties – the Progressive Party,
the United Communist Party, the Women of Armenia party and the Justice
party – have adopted a decision to consolidate and create a
Centre-left Union.

The goal of the union is to consolidate all socialist political
forces, the leader of the Renewed Communist Party, Yuriy Manukyan, has
told an Arminfo correspondent.

He said that the main aim of the new union is to achieve social
justice, ensure stability, peace and evolutionary changes. Yuriy
Manukyan said that a working group has been set up to organize a
congress of the new union. Meanwhile, the leader of the United
Communists stressed that the congress could take place only if out of
the 27 socialist political forces, 10 would join the new union.

For his part, the leader of the Progressive Party, Tigran Urikhanyan,
said that representatives of the party were holding consultations on
unification with several socialist political forces. Among them Tigran
Urikhanyan mentioned the Progressive Communist Party and the Social
Democratic Party.