LEADEROMANIA IMPEDES THE RIGHT FORCES

Samvel Gevorgian, the head of “Alternative” initiative and ANM administration member thinks.

– Some ANM members have issued a statement about their attitudes towards “Alternative”. Is there any discrepancy between your statuses of being the founder member of both ANM and “Alternative”?
– I\’m sure that 90% of our opposition doesn\’t feel the time and reality. I have joined “Alternative” after preparation of documents; I\’m not a founder member. I tried to work in the foreign affairs and inter party commission at the ANM, to hold meetings with the people, contacts with them. But I didn\’t succeed for deferent reasons. And I thought if a group was trying to carry out activities to get results outside ANM, I signed “Alternative\’s” announcement. I saw that “Alternative” chooses a way where the intentions won\’t prevent the real activities. Now we try to go in a way, which will lead to prevention of this criminal system\’s rehabilitation. I\’m for forming a serious political field.
– Whether the politicians of “Alternative” give reasons for confidence that it may be a true alternative for the current system? Perhaps people would have such confidence that that was a serious political union if “Republic” and other influential right forces joined it.
– No, I don\’t think so, but I think if we work rightly we\’ll have more and more adherents and “Alternative” will be that power. Our documents and ideas must be adopted by democratic and right forces if the mania of being the first doesn\’t dominate.
– Anyway, Vigen Khachatrian declared once: “As the authorities distorted the conception of authority, the oppositions distorted the conception of opposition, as well as some people try to distort “alternative” conception.
– People who have always distorted something speak of it very much.
– Did your mentioned reasons /mania of being the first/ play any role that ANM president declared that Levon Ter-Petrosian\’s nomination in the presidential elections will be impossible as his political theme will be unified?
– I think this a hast reply without any serious analyse. Especially when Ararat Zurabian issued that statement without discussing it in the ANM administration sitting. He thinks why the ANM administration members don\’t work in the party. I answer, because the ANM hasn\’t found its public way of action yet. And if “Alternative” works seriously, this will help not only the ANM but “Republic” and other powers, too.
– Let\’s remind that Ararat Zurabian affirmed for the second time that it was wrong to form another unit if the party still exists. Isn\’t there any rational element in these affirmations?
– I think, there is. But it could refer to the starting way of action. We all make some sort of strategic mistakes in our activities. So we must clearly formulate the aim and the right way to reach it. I think the right way isn\’t the critic but to curry out joint activities round these ideas.
– Nowadays, some right units are formed in the right field, “Alternative”, Alexander Arzumanian\’s “Civil unruliness” movement, on the other hand ANM has declared about its negotiations with “Republic”. Is it possible, these groups will be unified?
– I think, this is the result of egocentrism, it may lead to nothing. We must form our aim clearly, which is very obvious, to make any effort to prevent rehabilitation of this system.