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"OPPOSITION LIBERAL PARTIES SHOULD BE SELF-LIQIUDATED AND CREATE BIG POLITICAL UNIT," SUREN SURENIANTS BELIEVES
Noyan Tapan
Jun 18 2007
YEREVAN, JUNE 18, NOYAN TAPAN. After the May 12 elections "the acting
opposition, acting since 2001, has ceased to exist in institutional
terms."
This announcement was made by Suren Sureniants, a member of the
political Board of the Hanrapetutiun (Republic) party, during the
June 18 debate with Eduard Sharmazanov, a member of the RPA and
parliamentary faction.
In his opinion, all the opposition parties professing liberal
ideologies should be self-liquidated, create one big opposition party,
and, after forming that new opposition party, the politicians bearing
liberal values should decide whose candidature they will support in
the coming presidential elections. S. Sureniants declared that, with
respect to Raffi Hovhannisian and Artur Baghdasarian, the leaders
of the two parliamentary opposition parties, he sees either Aram
Sargsian, the leader of the Hanrapetutiun (Republic) party, or the
former president Levon Ter-Petrosian at the post of RA President.
E. Sharmazanov mentioned that all the small parties should grow
bigger sooner or later: in his opinion, that "is one of the laws
of democracy."
Touching upon the ARFD's decision to take part in the presidential
elections with their own candidate, the member of the RPA Board
mentioned that this fact also speaks about the existence of democracy
in the power elite and, in particular, the freedom of having one's
own viewpoint.
Noyan Tapan
Jun 18 2007
YEREVAN, JUNE 18, NOYAN TAPAN. After the May 12 elections "the acting
opposition, acting since 2001, has ceased to exist in institutional
terms."
This announcement was made by Suren Sureniants, a member of the
political Board of the Hanrapetutiun (Republic) party, during the
June 18 debate with Eduard Sharmazanov, a member of the RPA and
parliamentary faction.
In his opinion, all the opposition parties professing liberal
ideologies should be self-liquidated, create one big opposition party,
and, after forming that new opposition party, the politicians bearing
liberal values should decide whose candidature they will support in
the coming presidential elections. S. Sureniants declared that, with
respect to Raffi Hovhannisian and Artur Baghdasarian, the leaders
of the two parliamentary opposition parties, he sees either Aram
Sargsian, the leader of the Hanrapetutiun (Republic) party, or the
former president Levon Ter-Petrosian at the post of RA President.
E. Sharmazanov mentioned that all the small parties should grow
bigger sooner or later: in his opinion, that "is one of the laws
of democracy."
Touching upon the ARFD's decision to take part in the presidential
elections with their own candidate, the member of the RPA Board
mentioned that this fact also speaks about the existence of democracy
in the power elite and, in particular, the freedom of having one's
own viewpoint.