“MARCH 1 INITIATED IN PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS 2007”
Support A1+!“It is profitable for the opposition if the authorities carry out reforms. We do not want to be in power. Our sole wish is to live in a normal, democratic and free country where Law prevails”, declared Karapet Rubinian, former Vice-Speaker of the RA National Assembly at the discussion “Formation of Political Culture in Armenia”, organized with the assistance of the USA National Democratic Institute.
In fact, instead of reforms the authorities are carrying out imitation. “Serzh Sargssian, who has appropriated the power, first announces that holding rallies is quite normal and they should be authorized but minutes later the City Hall refuses the opposition request to organize a rally on June 20. The authorities promise one thing and do quite another”, declared Karapet Rubinian. The speaker also noticed that fundamental reforms are possible only in the result of consistent struggle and the next step to it is the rally slated for tomorrow.
Opponent of the speaker Armen Ashotian noticed that turnovers in the 21st century are not ideological but technological, directed to solve the issue of the geopolitical vector. In the social sense they never result in reforms. It happened to Georgia; it happened to the Ukraine and it would happen to Armenia. “The attempt of turnover resulted only in regression in Armenia”, Ashotian noticed.
“There would have been no regression if you had held free and democratic elections, if you had not beaten and killed people”, Rubinian contradicted. “March 1 initiated in the “Marriott” Hotel on September 21, 2007 with the rhetoric that disrupted the society”, stated Republican Armen Ashotian.
In reply to Ashotian’s statement Chairman of the Constitutional Rights Union Hrant Khachatrian said: “March 1 initiated before the Parliamentary Elections 2007”. “If you mean that Robert Kocharian gave the order to fire at people on September 21, it’s the other side of the fence. However, I don’t think you expected the society to revolt.”
