According to the leader of “Heritage” party, there was not enough potential on April 9 to take the case to end. When during a press conference on July 19, the leader of the “Heritage” party Raffi Hovhannisyan raised his claim to gather all political forces around the table and make a national revolution, the reporters once again voiced that on April 9 Raffi Hovannisyan did not lead the work to the end, and in the middle of the action, like other figures, with the claims to change the regime, ‘sent people home’, so it happened what happened in 2004, in 2008 … ” To the question of Aravot as to how do you explain that on April 9 many people making a claim of changing the authorities preferred to stay at home, and follow the events sitting before the computer and not joining you on the street, and at the end began searching for a target for “nothing turned out”, whether it is a problem of a mentality, isn’t it, let’s say, in Egypt or elsewhere, people came out to the street and reach their goal, Mr. Hovhannisyan smiled and explained it with the problem of ‘survival’ of our nation.
According to him, people have seen so much pain and suffering is not in a hurry to get out to the street and destroyed everything, they just close their eyes to all the problems that have been raised before them and pack their suitcases instead of fighting … Mr. Hovhannisyan believes that the time will come when people will understand that they can never say “have nothing to do with it, do not go, it is dangerous, watch the computer… I think that when we turn the civil case into a public demand, there will be a change… I think it’s going a little bit slow within us, the presumption to look for the blame beyond us lies strong not only within the citizens, but also within the political forces. But each of us should work on itself, we passed quite a way together from February 18 to April 9, simply the potential was not there for solving on that day… Now the issue of issues is that we can rebuild the potential and continue until the end, which a lot of people wanted see it on February 18.”
To our question whether the “social issues would make people get to feet, or the national, let’s say, the risk of war, etc.,” Mr. Hovhannisyan said,- “I do not know … The history shows with an example of the Karabakh movement that the national issues connect, but the Artsakh movement started with the issues of environmental, social, and legal… I think there is an interrelation. The national can become a cover for it, the integrity of the country, independence, but I think that the social, environmental, civil, and the imperative of not having a legal country are just threats that lead to revolt.”
Melania BARSEGHYAN
“Aravot” daily
