SUPPORT, SPINE AND FAVOURITE IN ONE PARTY
Support A1+!“Pro-governmental forces, namely the Republican Party, had the highest electoral during the May 12 parliamentary elections,” Republican Armen Ashotyan announced during today's press conference.
“The parliament elected in 2003 faced a problem of legitimacy. A major achievement of the parliament of 2007 was that it solved the problem of legitimacy. The absence of this problem allows stating that we have formed a legitimate legislature in the Republic of Armenia, unlike 2003 when the society remained polarized in the post-electoral period,” Armen Ashotyan said.
In reply to the question whether the Republicans will collaborate with extra-governmental forces, Ashotyan said, “The Republican Party is ready to cooperate with all “healthy” forces.” Then he added, “Armenia has political support, spine and favourite in the face of the Republican Party.”
Presently no post-electoral process is expected. The rallies held by the radical opposition are natural selection in the opposition. It is clear that it will not have political consequences for the state. I think a number of oppositional forces are undergoing this process, and I think that an effort will be made to involve those who will undergo this stage successfully in the presidential election,” Armen Ashotyan says. The right thing for the parties which were not elected to the parliament will be consolidation on the basis of ideology.
Ashotyan wonders why the Orinats Yerkir Party has joined the rallies and calls on its voters to join the rallies as the party has passed the 5-percent benchmark. “The OYP wants to be involved in the rallies along with the parliament “to get some more nuts from there,” Ashotyan says.
