Commenting on the statement of Vardan Sedrakyan, a candidate for president who is an expert in epic poems, that “the assassination attempt on Hayrikyan was organized by a Masonic organization, the members of which included Raffi Hovhannisyan and his father” during a conversation with www.aravot.am, Styopa Safaryan, the secretary general of the Heritage party, said: “His behavior during the election campaign has been unserious; probably, the role given to him, the instruction given to him by the people who urged him to nominate himself, the message was it, but it became clear particularly in recent days that he had distorted, vulgarized Raffi Hovhannisyan’s statements from the very beginning of the election campaign. Even before the nomination, he had challenged the 8 million.” According to Safaryan, in recent days when it became clear that the struggle was between Raffi Hovhannisyan and Serzh Sargsyan, the slanderous statements made by the expert in epic poems against Raffi Hovhannisyan show that he had been given an instruction “to trouble the waters in ways very dangerous for him.” Safaryan, as a political scientist, is convinced that the statements of the expert in epic poems in the past month clearly testify to the fact that he is politically oriented to Russia. “One can draw only that conclusion from his statements about joining the Eurasian Union, Georgia, and political events in Armenia, although saying doesn’t mean that he is instructed by Russia, but it means that he is pro-Russian; it is undeniable.” As for the “enigmatic” meeting between Raffi Hovhannisyan and the expert in epic poems, which, according to Sedrakayan, had taken place last year, Safaryan said: “All saviors of the nation, one part of which has tried to save the nation with an epic poem, the other part of which without the characters of an epic poem, have tried to meet with Raffi during all these years. I don’t rule out that he has tried to meet with Raffi too; he is one of those thousands of people….” Safaryan added that if the expert in epic poems had promised to continue this tragicomedy, perhaps, he would try to make up the content of such a conversation.
Eva HAKOBYAN
