T. Karapetyan: "Against each other"

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Leader of the "People's Party" Tigran Karapetyan has, as he says, "assigned someone" at the Matenadaran to inform people of the rally on May 5.

The party had envisaged holding the rally on May 3, but found out from the municipality that the Armenian National Congress had already notified the municipality of other events on that day, as well as the preceding and following days.

"That was strange to me. Perhaps the ANC has turned that into a political monopoly. We don't view the ANC as an opposition field, but a team and they are two different things," said Tigran Karapetyan, adding that the "People's Party" has not had any problem with notifications after the shutdown of ALM TV.

However, in an interview with "A1+", ANC coordinator Levon Zurabyan said the ANC has only notified the Municipality of Yerevan about holding rallies at Freedom Square, but the ANC has been denied and offered the Matenadaran. "Now that the issue of holding rallies at Freedom Square has been solved, we are donating our upheld appeal to Tigran Karapetyan. Let him go and hold a rally there," said Zurabyan.

During today's press conference, Tigran Karapetyan primarily touched upon the ANC's steps and the possible dialogue with the authorities. According to him, the people are not getting anything out of the game between the authorities and the opposition. They come to the rally and leave disappointed since they are not allowed to hold a sitting strike.

"I am amazed to see how the people follow the leaders. It was a betrayal of principles. The ANC says release the political prisoners, while that should be established by legislation," said Karapetyan, assuring that the authorities and the ANC have agreed to fix a certain percentage during the upcoming parliamentary elections.
Tigran Karapetyan is certain that the ANC will have 15 deputies of which 14.5 will be from the HHSh. "That .5 might refer to Stepan Demirchyan since he still isn't able to express his position."

Tigran Karapetyan says his party is an alternative and has scheduled to hold a meeting at the government sessions hall on May 10 at 16:00. The meeting will be the gathering of patriotic forces and will elect a political council.

Karapetyan says the council will not include "Heritage" party and as for the rest, he has not invited anyone and is waiting for their response. According to him, there is a need for the third power.

"It is political naivety to keep only the presidents in the field. Let Robert Kocharyan enter the field in a couple of years and let them play chess together."