According to Larisa Alaverdyan, the Heritage Party parliamentary group secretary and the first Human Rights Defender of Armenia, they create a counterbalance to the gay parade in Azerbaijan by the explosion of the DIY Club in Yerevan a few weeks ago, “All this is done to show that there is [...]
www.aravot.com asked Aram Karapetyan, the New Times Party (NTP) leader, to talk about the silence on the political stage after the election, the attitude of the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) and the Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP), in particular. Mr. Karapetyan noted, “People keep silent in two cases – when [...]
Members of the ANC advised the Heritage Party at the time to reject offices, in order not to legitimize the rule of bandits. www.aravot.am inquired from Aram Karapetyan, the New Times Party (NTP) leader, when the ANC members had been right, whether they had given bad advice at the time [...]
Wilfried Martens, the European People’s Party (EPP) leader, has sent a letter of congratulations to RPA leader Serzh Sargsyan on the occasion of excellent victory in the election. In this regard, www.aravot.am asked for a comment from Armen Ashotyan, the Minister of Education and Science and the RPA deputy chairman, [...]
Petros Makeyan, an ANC member, didn’t see signs of continuing the struggle during the Armenian National Congress rally yesterday. Mr. Makeyan told www.aravot.am that as opposed to the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) and the Heritage Party, which made public the violations registered during the election, but seemed not to have [...]
In response to a question what the difference between this parliamentary election and the previous one had been and how active people had been on the internet, Tigran Kocharyan, an information security specialist, said during a conversation with www.aravot.am, “This parliamentary election differed from the previous one by the fact [...]
“I think that one shouldn’t see it as a serious thing. In such cases, one should immediately call law-enforcement agencies. We ourselves do relevant work,” Davit Harutyunyan, an RPA head of the state and legal issues committee of the National Assembly, said, in response to an observation of www.aravot.am [...]
www.aravot.am inquired from Armen Poghosyan, the head of the Consumers’ Association NGO, the pre-election program of which party was the most populist and the program of which party the most realistic. Our interlocutor responded, “The most populist programs are the ones of the ruling Republican Party and the Prosperous Armenia [...]
Tevan Poghosyan, the Heritage Party candidate for proportional representation, has seen the pictures of people who impeded Stepan Safaryan’s campaign rally in Avan a few days ago. In his words, the ones who impeded were not two 13-year-old kids, as Republican Party of Armenia candidate for MP Ruben Hayrapetyan stated, [...]
During a conversation with www.aravot.am, Lyudmila Sargsyan, the chairman of the Social Democrat Hunchakian Party (SDHP) nominated on the ANC list for proportional representation, thought reasonable not to rule out anything. The ANC always stated that the RPA had chances to get 3% in the May 6 election, therefore, we [...]
Today the joints staff of the three political forces – the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF), the Armenian National Congress (ANC) and the Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP) – convened a regular plenary meeting, at which various issues were discussed, but they didn’t discuss handing out tractors by Gagik Tsarukyan during his [...]
www.aravot.am asked Armen Martirosyan, a member of the Heritage Party parliamentary group, to comment on Samvel Nokoyan’s statement that the rumors that the Heritage Party was engaged in some cooperation with the government were a political technology to win votes. Mr. Martirosyan explained, “I don’t know what Mr. Nikoyan said [...]
So, it is obvious that the Armenian National Congress (ANC) pins its hopes in this election campaign on the fact that the Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP), winning sufficient votes, will be able to take an opposition or semi-opposition attitude toward Serzh Sargsyan, as a result of which the current president’s government will weaken and Levon Ter-Petrossian will have more chances in the upcoming presidential election. Its indirect testimonies are mutual reverences, Vartan Oskanian’s and Hmayak Hovhannisyan’s opoposition statements, as well as the fact that the first and the third presidents’ propaganda is directed against the Heritage Party, as if it is very important whether that party will have a parliamentary group consisting of 5-7 members or not.
In a nutshell, the ANC, sensing that it doesn’t have sufficient human and financial resources, decided to struggle “against the regime” using the resources of the PAP. Let’s put aside how much, in the end, it will harm the “regime,” the roots of which are deeper than the “evil will” of a certain party or a certain individual (including the three presidents). The problem is that the calculation is wrong to begin with – taking such an attitude the ANC grants his voters to the PAP.
11 days are left till the end of the election campaign that started on April 6, but, political parties still have millions in their pre-election funds. Judging from the fund expenditures, one can say that the RPA, the PAP and the Heritage Party haven’t spared money and have allowed themselves [...]
www.aravot.am applied to Stepan Safaryan, a representative of the Heritage Party and its parliamentary group leader, trying to clarify whether it was possible that the party would join the Rules Guaranteeing Civilized Participation in the Election prepared by the RPA executive body, which had been made public the previous day [...]
On April 21, during a rally initiated by the Armenian National Congress (ANC) in Freedom Square, the Congress leader Levon Ter-Petrossian, talking about the joint staff of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF), the Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP) and the ANC, said that the staff was a very trustworthy mechanism of [...]
“No one can force anyone. Particularly, given the fact that the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) doesn’t have such a problem,” Galust Sahakyan, the deputy chairman of the RPA and the leader of the RPA parliamentary group, said in response to a question of www.aravot.am what problem they solved by [...]
“I think that no political force can help the Heritage Party in any way anymore. If the given political force has chosen that policy, that strategy, I think that the real motivations of its political attitude are visible directly and unambiguously to the society. I don’t doubt it for a [...]
Today www.aravot.am inquired from Styopa Safaryan, the Heritage Party parliamentary group leader, whether the Heritage Party had shown too much ambition in the joint staff; if you wanted to unite around one issue, what the demands made by the Heritage Party alone meant, he responded, “If everyone says the same [...]
According to the latest public opinion poll conducted by Gallup, 3% of the respondents will vote for the Heritage Party. However, the Heritage Party representatives say in their interviews that they had expected to get 25% of the people’s votes before the election campaign, whereas now, seeing people’s mood, their [...]
