According to Heghine Bisharyan, a deputy leader of the Rule of Law Party (RLP), the clash between the police and protesters on Baghramyan Avenue yesterday was a result of a disorganized rally. “You should be able to control the people whom you rally in the square and have something to tell. If you cannot control the people and don’t become the right leader at that moment, many problems can arise, which you can compare with both March 1 and other clashes. I think that what happened yesterday shouldn’t have happened. Those people who lay a finger on someone else are blameworthy, because it is acceptable when people express their will in that way. However, it should be organized. Certainly, it is unacceptable that rallies, which, I think, were peaceful, end in such clashes,” Ms. Bisharyan told www.aravot.am. Ms. Bisharyan said that she attended the dinner in the Presidential Palace yesterday, along with a set of other members of the RLP. In response to our question
how appropriate it was to have a dinner in the Presidential Palace, while citizens boycotting the results of the election and President of the Republic of Armenia Serzh Sargisyan were being beaten outside the very Presidential Palace, Ms. Bisharyan said: “You know quite well that the inauguration ceremony, which is planned in advance, took place yesterday. And everyone is informed in advance that a dinner would be served for the guests at that hour, and everyone knew about the program. The person who knew about that program and took those actions in parallel with that program should be asked whether he did the right thing or not.”
Arpine SIMONYAN
