Only We Have Precise Ideological Positions: Says Leader Of Armenian

ONLY WE HAVE PRECISE IDEOLOGICAL POSITIONS: SAYS LEADER OF ARMENIAN COMMUNISTS

ArmInfo News Agency, Armenia
Oct 24 2006

"None of political parties but us come up with precise ideological
positions", Rouben Tobmasyan, First Secretary of the Central Committee
of Communist party of RA, said at the press conference in the
‘Pakagits’ club today.

He pointed out that the main political players seeking Parliamentary
majority do not present an action plan and make the election campaign
a cheap bargain for votes. "Potato distributed to villagers can have
only a momentary effect and the five-year exploitation will follow
afterwards. People get all this but within the last 15 years they
were brought to such extreme poverty that they are ready to sell
their votes once again for nothing", said R. Tovmasyan.

He insists that majority of Armenians are for return to the socialist
regime. And this is the reason why they are targeted by a black PR
that is widely spread in the IT policy of the majority of electronic
Mass Media. "Nowadays, TV channels use every chance to criticize
this or that moment of Soviet history and to blacken activities of
Communists. Meanwhile, people keep leaving the country and only the
Army celebrates the Independence Day. Laborers (who add 12% to economy
growth) do not come to the Republic Square during celebrations",
pointed out the communist leader.

He said that one of the manifestations of anti-Communist hysteria are
interior conflicts of the parties. As a result some high officials were
bribed. "Sanatruk Sahakyan, Ex-Second Secretary of Central Committee
(CC) of the Communist Party, who at first acted as a radical Communist
and, when later expelled from the party, entered a rightist-liberal
‘Orinats Yerkir’ party. I think he and alike party members have signed
their political obituary notices. I do not want to comment on their
further steps any more", said R. Tovmasyan.