The HHK list was agreed with Kocharyan
Robert Kocharyan considers the need for fair political competition in the upcoming parliamentary elections as an imperative.
In an interview with "MediaMax" agency, Kocharyan touched upon the debate over leader of the "Bargavach Hayastan" (Prosperous Armenia) party Gagik Tsarukyan's statement according to which Kocharyan could have created his own party or have headed the HHK (Republican Party of Armenia) during his term as RA President.
"The nature of the debate showed that unfortunately, some political figures have a very short-term memory," said Robert Kocharyan.
"At the time, I think few people had doubts that as president, I was capable of not only forming, but heading (formally and informally) the majority in parliament. I simply chose another model of cooperation with the parliament and the political parties which, at the time, was more efficient and gave the president the opportunity to focus on the presidency and maintain an ample field for maneuvers in domestic affairs," announced Robert Kocharyan.
Kocharyan stressed that after the constitutional reforms, he decided to leave the format of his participation in political processes unchanged, but started paying more attention to the situation facing coalition parties, especially the Republican Party of Armenia. "According to an agreement with Prime Minister Andranik Margaryan and then Serzh Sargsyan, I gave several successful heads of executive bodies advice to join the Republican Party of Armenia in order to reinforce the latter's cadre potential and in fact, most of them are currently part of the party's administrative bodies."
"The pre-electoral list of the Republican Party of Armenia was agreed with me in 2003 and 2007 and that was a high indicator of cooperation between the president and the party with the largest faction in parliament. It allowed me to preside without thinking about the party's leadership," announced Robert Kocharyan, assuring that "that cooperation became the guarantee for success in the social-economic development that was registered during those years."
