“The Republican Party didn’t hand out election bribe and the parties that are involved in that the most talk about it,” Karine Achemyan, an RPA MP, expressed this idea during a press conference today. During a conversation with www.aravot.am, Ms. Achemyan explained the fact that Levon Zurabyan, a member of [...]
As a result of the parliamentary election in 2007, the Heritage Party entered the parliament with the same number of seats, as the ANC now – 7 seats. The Congress criticized the Heritage Party at the time and tried to make them give up the seats, saying that going to [...]
Today Levon Zurabyan, the Armenian National Congress (ANC) coordinator, gave a strange answer at the joint staff, in response to our manifold questions, which were related to the election bribe handed out by the PAP. In particular, the question was the following – how the ANC cooperated with the PAP [...]
Styopa Safaryan, the Heritage Party parliamentary group leader, stated in regard to the joint staff that it is Robert Kocharyan’s campaign headquarters, in the activities of which the Heritage Party didn’t want to participate. Levon Zurabyan, the Armenian National Congress (ANC) coordinator participating in the staff work, corrected Styopa Safaryan [...]
Today, before the Armenian National Congress (ANC) rally, we asked Levon Zurabyan to make a comment on Hmayak Hovhannisyan’s statement, according to which, the ANC attitude toward Gagik Tsarukyan had improved after he had refused to buy Khachatur Sukiasyan’s Bjni. He responded in this regard, “No comment.” He gave the [...]
The leader of the opposition is the Heritage Party today, although everyone had been convinced before the election that the leader of the opposition was the Armenian National Congress (ANC). Today Karen Kocharyan, a political technologist, shared such an idea with www.aravot.am. www.aravot.am tried to get ANC coordinator Levon Zurabyan’s [...]
Today www.aravot.am inquired from Armenian National Congress coordinator Levon Zurabyan whether he had already gotten a letter from the police that they would not give the list of the persons that were absent from the country to the joint staff. Yesterday Police Colonel Hovhannes Kocharyan, the head of the passport [...]
Yesterday the Central Electoral Commission published the list of parties that got the right to pin propaganda posters on the external advertisement hoarding excelling 5m². The Armenian National Congress (ANC) didn’t even apply for that. Today www.aravot.am inquired from ANC coordinator Levon Zurabyan what was the reason, whether they didn’t [...]
Yesterday Levon Ter-Petrossian and Levon Zurabyan discussed the internal political situation, developments and what was going to happen before the election, on the election day and after the election in Armenia with the US Ambassador. Armenian National Congress (ANC) coordinator Levon Zurabyan told www.aravot.am about this and mentioned that [...]
“I was against, when they signed this statement, because the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) is the one who carries out all this election fraud today and it would be at least strange, if we started to cooperate with a murderer to investigate a murder,” Levon Zurabyan said during [...]
Levon Zurabyan, the ANC coordinator, about confidential negotiations between the ANC and the Heritage Party “We proposed – in order to implement the Armenian society’s demand – to jointly endorse 21 ANC candidates, 7 Heritage Party candidates and 13 Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) or alternative candidates in 41 electoral districts, [...]
The list of people nominated for the majoritarian representation and endorsed by the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) has made a controversial impression. On one side, there is, for example, Mher of Tokhmakh whose entourage and inclinations are well-known. Endorsing such a candidate can mean only one thing – the establishment will use the criminal resource in the Erebuni community ofYerevanto reach success. There are a few other figures on the list like that and certainly, it would be better, if no party pinned its hopes on such people. However, new figures from the political perspective have appeared next to famous underworld leaders and oligarchs. I know a part of them personally, as a part of my job, in particular, and I have never had any reason to doubt those persons’ dignity. They cannot be button-pushers, nor else will they do it instead of others.
Naturally, Viktor Dalakyan on that list will be a target of attacks. However, if we approach the issue emotionally, it is in the interest of the RPA to have an educated man being well-aware of the legislative technique. Therefore, the deal is, so to say, mutually beneficial. Certainly, one can claim that the political and economic system in our country with its drawbacks will not change thanks to a certain MP’s dignity or skillfulness. However, it is less likely to change through street noise and pointless threats made against the above-mentioned criminalized leaders.
Ashot Manucharyan said to Aravot.am that the ANC has potential to stir up the people, but it is important how pure the idea guiding to a rally is, i.e. the purity of the ANC heart, mind and spirit. Today we inquired from ANC coordinator Levon Zurabyan what the guarantee that [...]
ANC coordinator Levon Zurabyan stated during his last press conference that they would stir up the people in February. When journalists inquired why in February exactly, Mr. Zurabyan explained that they hadn’t decided it out of nowhere, they had made serious calculations and found out that the Armenian population was [...]
During a meeting of the Armenian National Congress Political Council that has just finished, the possibilities of the ANC member-parties’ participation in the upcoming parliamentary election through proportional representation were discussed. ANC coordinator Levon Zurabyan informed about that during a conversation with Aravot.am. In response to our question, Mr. Zurabyan [...]
Alexander Arzumanyan, a member of the Free Democrats Party, the former minister of foreign affairs of theRepublicofArmeniaand a former member of the Armenian National Congress (ANC), stated that the Free Democrats and the Heritage Party discussed the prospects of cooperation. Aravot.am inquired from ANC coordinator Levon Zurabyan whether the Congress [...]
“The Armenian National Congress (ANC) worked by ‘the more prisoners of conscience, the better’ principle at the time, but time proved some prisoners of conscience were not that prisoners of conscience, at least the recent developments have proved that. Was it a wrong strategy for ANC to declare anyone a [...]
The consensus between ANC, the Heritage Party and the Armenian Revolutionary Federation for free and fair elections doesn’t threaten to become a pre-election alliance yet. The three main forces of the Armenian opposition camp, ARF, the Heritage Party and ANC, have reached an agreement on switching to 100% proportional representation [...]
Carel Hofstra, the acting head of the OSCE Yerevan Office, answering questions of journalists during a press conference today, said that almost surely 2000 observers would not come toArmenia, there would be a few hundreds of them, as many as during previous elections. Since the opposition, in particular, Armenian National [...]
Such responsible statement was made by Ararat Zurabyan Yesterday Ararat Zurabyan, the former president of the Pan-Armenian National Movement (PANM) board and now a founding member of the Free Democrats Party, referred on www.aravot.am to the questions asked by ANC coordinator Levon Zurabyan as early as on Wednesday – why [...]
