“Our society supports active and creative forces, not boycotting ones”
“A boycott is a way of political struggle; it is a passive way of struggle, and every force should decide for itself how it struggles. There are a few such examples in our modern history and the history of our parliamentarianism. In 2003, the Justice coalition boycotted for almost a year, afterwards, everyone forgot about that coalition, there was a period in the fourth convocation of the parliament when the Heritage Party boycotted the parliament’s sessions, and the Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP) boycotted for a short period of time recently. A piece of good advice from me to oppositionists; one thing is clear, the past experience has shown that a political boycott harms those very persons who choose that option. Our society supports active and creative forces, not boycotting ones,” Eduard Sharmazanov, the Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly, said during a conversation with www.aravot.am.
In response to our question whether the RPA majority would not be anxious, if the parliamentary opposition, expressing its solidarity with Raffi Hovhannisyan who is on a hunger strike in Freedom Square and the movement led by him, vacated its seats or boycotted the parliament’s sessions, Sharmazanov said: “Being anxious is not a political category.
“Everything should be constitutional and legal. Today the Constitution doesn’t offer us any opportunity to conduct a snap election,” the National Assembly Deputy Speaker claimed, basically denying any possibility of holding a snap parliamentary election.
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Nelly GRIGORYAN
