Heritage will not follow Raffi Hovannisian's step
Heritage Party Leader Raffi Hovannisian's resignation from Parliament has nothing to do with the great scandal inside the Party, Heritage MP Stepan Safarian announced today.
He rejected the recent publications according to which Mr. Hovannisian's resignation is connected with the faction chairman Armen Martirosian and spokesman Hovsep Khurshudian who are said to have falsified the elections to the party's board.
Stepan Safarian says Armen Martirosian and Hovsep Khurshudian actually prevented election rigging by another two members of the board who were promised high positions by the Armenian National Congress.
"When I opened today's newspapers I saw the community of interests between pro-government and opposition newspapers. They all target at Raffi Hovannisian. The "hunting" followed my statement that the Heritage would be an independent and centrist party and would name its candidate for the upcoming elections," said Stepan Safarian adding that the press simply wanted to libel Raffi Hovannisian.
The Heritage MP says Raffi Hovannisian's decision is seriously motivated and has profound reasons hence it has aroused panic in ruling circles.
Both Raffi Hovannisian and Heritage think that national problems stem from home democratic problems - starting from the March 1 occurrences, the period preceding the events, government's inability to surmount the crises, vulnerability of the state and ending with international developments contradicting the interests of Armenia where Armenian leadership dully obeys outer forces.
Raffi Hovannisian will comment on his resignation a bit later, promised Mr. Safarian.
Note that the Heritage is not going to follow Mr. Hovannisian and refuse from mandates.
