Dashnaktsutyun follows Seyran Ohanyan (video)
“2016 was a year of new beginning for Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF),” Aghvan Vardanyan, secretary of the NA ARF faction, told journalists in the final press conference. During the recent 6 months of 2016, 800 people have joined Dashnaktsutyun. 80 percent of them are young people. Touching upon the upcoming parliamentary elections, Mr Vardanyan noted that he welcomes each political union, alliance, but as of now Dashnaktsutyun does not carry out negotiations with any force. As for the alliance with the Republican Party of Armenia (HHK), the results of the elections will show whether continue the cooperation or not: “People can see that there is an opportunity to make changes in Armenia through elections,” said Aghvan Vardanyan, adding that the representation of Dashnaktsutyun as well as opposition forces in the new parliament will be very important: “Under the conditions of this new system the bigger the role of Dashnaktsutyn, the representation in the parliament is, the more inner sustainability in our country will be ensured, real preconditions for development will be established, the security of our country, Artsakh will be guaranteed, foreign interventions will be less or will face resistance. We want our political forces to realize that at the claim of Dashnaktsutyun it was determined in the Constitution that the opposition must have 30 percent of positions in the parliament, as we understand that without real representation of the opposition, without counteraction, the country cannot develop.” Mr Vardanyan also touched upon Seyran Ohanyan’s and Gagik Tsarukyan’s return to politics, noting that it is their right, “Seyran Ohanyan is not new in the politics; he held a political post, was member of political team. Simply I want to know by what format, which team, what political force he will return to politics.” As for Levon Ter-Petrosyan’s speech at the Armenian National Congress (HAK) conference, there is nothing new for Aghvan Vardanyan, “The only good and new thing was that Henrikh Mkhitaryan is our greatest pride. Compromise implies concessions from two sides; if one side doesn’t resort to concessions, it cannot be called compromise.” Mr Vardanyan also singled out another important event for this year, seizure of police regiment by “Sasna Dzrer”, “In spite of sincerity and hopelessness of that step, I think that it was directed towards destroying the unity of our nation formed during April War and was guided by foreign forces.”
