The President of “Heritage” party Raffi Hovhannisian and Vice President Armen Martirosyan have held meetings with the aim of extending the opposition with both parliamentary and non-parliamentary forces after the session of the party. Which forces they have met with and what agreement they have made will be publicized in September. However, the Board member of the party Susanna Muradyan also confirmed that they have held such meetings. She informed: “The ones who wish can join us, we are open, and we similarly do not exclude and are ready to discuss the suggestions of other opposition political forces and if it corresponds to our logic, we can gather around them as well. Something is to be undertaken, definitely, this situation cannot remain any longer. I look at our external debt, it is in a state of default, the other indices, Serzh Sargsyan’s ambitiousness to be reproduced, we should struggle against all of this.”
Asked who they consider opposition when “Heritage” intends to go for the extension of opposition, whether they have the list of the opposition, forasmuch as everyone blame each other for being sold and the customers of Baghramyan 26, thus it is not clear together with whom “Heritage” is ready to extend, Susanna Muradyan answered: “We do not have any list. Pro-government media and fakes have been calling “Heritage” a customer and the government’s plan for years as well. I am a little bit more an optimist, I am sure that there are opposition political forces and figures, simply the little ambitious situations hinder to unite, little disagreements are in place implying that I had more votes and passed into the Parliament and you did not…we should overcome this. And that the opposition wing is not gathered within the Parliament, it is an axiom, I treat with a big hesitation, that the very parliamentary opposition is the actual opposition. Moreover, there are more opposition forces off the Parliament, we should do it together with them, there is no other solution. They will unite and a velvet change is desirable, let me not say a revolution. If not, then we should go out into the street. An extensive part of the opposition did not participate in the elections even when so many bribes were distributed. This part needs a generating force and it can be also “Heritage” or “Heritage” may gather around another force.”
Asked who she indicated saying that more opposition exists off the Parliament, Susanna Muradyan replied: “Why not “Unity”? Why not the Armenian National Congress? There are other forces that do not represent any party but can be the organizers and generators.”
Asked whether she indicated Seyran Ohanyan as well, she answered: “Seyran Ohanyan as well. There are a lot of opposition figures who are respected by the public. I think that a little thing is needed for them to gather at one place.”
We asked why they did not gather at one place last year when the state of the country was in a bad condition, the economy was in a bad condition and the elections were ahead, and why they should do it now. Susanna Muradyan replied: “The situation was not worse. The issue is not that our authorities are not able to reduce the poverty rate, but that their careless appetite does not let other people live normally, this is why a step is needed to be undertaken, for Serzh Azat Sargsyan, who leads to a one-party state, is not reproduced in April. In my opinion, we already have a one-party state.
Hripsime JEBEJYAN
