The leader of “Heritage” party Raffi Hovannisian made a remarkable statement. Recently there have been periodic rumors about the creation of Ohanyan-Raffi-Oskanyan (ORO) party. Raffi Hovannisian announced that they are in favor of enlargement, but the party will not be called ORO.
Raffi Hovannisian said that within a month “Heritage” will summon a conference and make a new offer to the powers within and beyond the parliament. “Then we will know whether our alliance partners are ready to enter a political fight as one party or not and besides we are for a much broader consolidation”. To the question whether the party will be called ORO, Raffi Hovannisian answered, “No”.
By this Code of the parliament, the opposition powers both within the parliament and beyond must cooperate and must become united, as much as possible based on their common interests, must become one party, to achieve real de jure results expected by people. If they can do this within “Yelq”, then I think they should do it, as the path to the future indicates that. “Heritage” realizes that and is very glad that “Yelq” has entered the parliament.
I think that those who have a common approach to internal and external relations, interests, and sovereignty of Armenia, should cooperate. We do not need 50 parties. We should have 5-7, or 10 political parties, which are big enough to fight, which have access to financial resources and have a chance to counterbalance this government. If it does not happen, we will again announce a public fight, and you will ask if we go out into the street and why we do not invite people to join us, etc. That is, everyone will fulfill his role, but nothing will be changed”.
Hripsime JEBEJYAN
