Styopa Safaryan, the Heritage Party parliamentary group leader, explained their decision of leaving the joint staff also by another fact, saying that the Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP) leader Gagik Tsarukyan, finding out that the Heritage Party wanted the party leaders to sign the document, had said that the Heritage Party was too small to make demands in the joint staff. In this regard, we inquired from Hmayak Hovhannisyan, the president of the Union of Political Scientists, whether everyone was not equal in the joint staff, whether there were big and small parties. According to H. Hovhannisyan, “Gagik Tsarukyan was right, he called things by their proper names, if the Heritage Party had not been small, would Raffi Hovhannisyan have sat in Freedom Square as an orphan for a few days and only 10-15 people would have gathered around him? The party leader has gone on a hunger strike, not 5 members of his parliamentary group should have gathered around him, but the people should have stood by his side. Now, if Gagik Tsarukyan goes on a hunger strike, a million people will gather there. He was absolutely right. There is no denying.”
Talking about Styopa Safaryan’s words, he assured that they backbit about the staff, “This is not the place, where they can have things out. Why doesn’t the Armenian National Congress (ANC) target the PAP? At least, because the PAP participates in this format. Galust Sahakyan offended everyone, if the Heritage Party doesn’t admit that he offended also them, it is the Heritage Party’s problem. However, Levon Zurabyan has the right to distinguish between the PAP and the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA), at least, because the PAP is going to cooperate with the ANC, with the opposition and the RPA refuses.”
Hripsime JEBEJYAN
