Ruben Hakobyan, the Heritage Party deputy chairman, explained during a conversation with www.aravot.am why he necessarily demanded that Gagik Tsarukyan signed the document on establishing a joint staff. According to him, it will be clear by that in which camp the PAP worked. In response to our question whether according to his logic, if Mr. Tsarukyan signed, he would become an oppositionist, Ruben Hakobyan said, “He will not become oppositionist, but after that we will offer the mechanisms, which we specifically intend to use for holding a free election – e.g., to establish a workgroup on examining facts of election bribery and winning votes in various ways. Otherwise, we see a signature that they want to hold a normal election, on one hand, and they knock on the people’s doors and tell them to give their passports, on the other.”
We tried to get clarification whether the Prosperous Armenia Party was the one that had gathered passports in Gavar, Ruben Hakobyan, stressing that he was responsible for his words, said that it had been the PAP and the Republican Party, “They gather passports, return them the next day and the Rule of Law Party (RLP) presents phones and those jams in Vayots Dzor.”
In response to our observation what Vardan Oskanyan was doing there, he said that there are political forces that use political technologies to maneuver, “Admittedly, as the saying goes, the smart lamb takes 7 mothers’ breast, but they have taken so many mothers’ breasts for the past 22 years – they have always stayed in power – that the state is in this condition. We say let the smart lamb take one mother’s breast, but let it decide who its mother is.”
Hripsime JEBEJYAN
