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PRE-PARLIAMENT MEMBER PREDICTS HEATED TENSIONS BY MAY
15:41 * 19.02.14
Hranush Kharatyan, a former lawmaker now representing the
Pre-parliament group, says she expects heated tensions in Armenia
until the month of May.
Speaking to Tert.am, the activist said she thinks that the joint
campaign by the parliamentary minority and the civic groups, and the
wave of public protests against the pension reforms is likely to take
a more active turn by May 4.
"There is, probably, no consolidation at the moment, because [the
society] is waiting for the Constitutional Court's ruling on the funded
[pensions]. Of course, the transport issue and Russia's migration
package - which creates lots of difficulties for our employment
migrants - will be in the limelight too, as the latter directly impacts
our budget. It's an open secret that a third of Armenia's gross
domestic product is obtained actually through those resources. And
our payers become fully insolvent once employment migration becomes
impossible; or else Russia has to change its attitude to Armenia,"
she said.
Asked whether the society doesn't need a political force to rely on,
Kharatyan replied that doesn't think any of the parties inspires
positive hope in the people.
"That's a very important question. I don't think any of our political
forces today inspires enough hope to make a consolidation possible.
But I do not rule out the possibility of an alliance between those
oppositionists or semi-real oppositionists in the coming couple
of months. And that alliance may really be able to unite the civil
rebellion around it. I cannot say it for sure, but I don't rule out
such an option," she noted.
Armenian News - Tert.am
15:41 * 19.02.14
Hranush Kharatyan, a former lawmaker now representing the
Pre-parliament group, says she expects heated tensions in Armenia
until the month of May.
Speaking to Tert.am, the activist said she thinks that the joint
campaign by the parliamentary minority and the civic groups, and the
wave of public protests against the pension reforms is likely to take
a more active turn by May 4.
"There is, probably, no consolidation at the moment, because [the
society] is waiting for the Constitutional Court's ruling on the funded
[pensions]. Of course, the transport issue and Russia's migration
package - which creates lots of difficulties for our employment
migrants - will be in the limelight too, as the latter directly impacts
our budget. It's an open secret that a third of Armenia's gross
domestic product is obtained actually through those resources. And
our payers become fully insolvent once employment migration becomes
impossible; or else Russia has to change its attitude to Armenia,"
she said.
Asked whether the society doesn't need a political force to rely on,
Kharatyan replied that doesn't think any of the parties inspires
positive hope in the people.
"That's a very important question. I don't think any of our political
forces today inspires enough hope to make a consolidation possible.
But I do not rule out the possibility of an alliance between those
oppositionists or semi-real oppositionists in the coming couple
of months. And that alliance may really be able to unite the civil
rebellion around it. I cannot say it for sure, but I don't rule out
such an option," she noted.
Armenian News - Tert.am