THE AUTHORITIES WILL HAVE TO ANSWER
Support A1+!“Those who have appropriated the power will have to answer for it”, declared leader of the People’s Party of Armenia Stepan Demirchian at the “De Facto” Club today. He meant the present authorities who continuously falsify elections but blame the opposition for their destructive attitude. Stepan Demirchian also noted that it is difficult to make out whether it is the 3rd term of Robert Kocharian or the 1st of Serzh Sargssian.
“New Armenia has not been founded. Everything is the same and today’s political situation is the result of recurrently rigged elections and the efforts of the authorities to keep themselves in power. The only difference we have are the victims.” According to Demirchian the authorities have only one way to ease the tension – holding special open elections. “Only after that we can speak over setup of a public council. Government which is setting up a public council and is eager to listen to public opinion cannot rig the elections”, says Demirchian.
Leader of the People’s Party also restated the demand of opposition to release the political prisoners, carry out open investigation, punish those guilty and hold free elections.
Stepan Demirchian made no provisions concerning the completion of PACE Resolution terms by the authorities and their possible discussion in Strasbourg. He only noticed that completion of the resolution proposals is first of all important for us and not for Europe.
