“I am surprised that you think that we will send a proposal to the government. It’s true that David Harutyunyan had called us and asked us to provide recommendations to you by the ANC. I have answered him that we have no desire to cooperate with these authorities, and share the responsibility for their decisions or preparation of decisions,” responded the leader of ANC faction Levon Zurabyan, in response to the question of Aravot on whether they had submitted recommendations for the Government Program by the ANC. ANC, generally, rejects the “majority of fake Republicans’” right to form a government in Armenia.
“Not to speak about introducing these illegitimate and corrupt government some program recommendations. They are capable to introduce only projects of looting and depressing Armenia. They are want recommendations to this respect, we cannot help them, because more skilled with higher qualification specialists than them would be hard to find in Armenia. We are not the case.” Two forces of non-ruling parliamentary Quartet, PAP and ARF, have already sent their recommendations to the Quartet. Apart from AND, the “Heritage” will not either submit recommendations on the government program. “No sense,” responded the party secretary Tevan Poghosyan to the question of Aravot. The approaches of the Quartet varied also with regard to the amended draft of the law on “funded” introduced to the government. ARF and PAP voted abstained to the first reading, by giving the opportunity to the government to consider their recommendations and amend the law prior to the second reading. ANC and “Heritage” remained adamant. To the question of Aravot whether there fundamental differences can become a cause for the Quartet to divorce, Levon Zurabyan responded, “On March 1, when we suggested the ANC strategy to get rid of this government, to achieve Serzh Sargsyan’s resignation, and unite it with PAP and ARF strategies, which was demanding expressing mistrust to the government, we succeeded. For us, it was just a phase. This first phase is accomplished. Naturally, we are again facing a problem of marrying the strategies. We are dealing with this problem, and there is no need to declare the fact that we still do not have a unified strategy as a death of the Quartet. Such a thing does not exist. The Quartet is an established political alliance, which, in our opinion, has serious potential. Simply, we need to work consistently to re-find common ground to implement the common political strategy.”
NELLY GRIGORYAN
