ANC leader: "We must participate in next elections"
"Reasons behind the weakening of the kleptocratic pyramid are recent serious variations among the ruling coalition forces, specifically the conflict between the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) and Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK)," Armenia's First President and Leader of the Armenian National Congress (ANC) Levon Ter-Petrosyan announced at Liberty Square on Friday.
"The conflict between the RPA and ANC is a fact that cannot be denied or neglected by any serious political force. And from the point of political developments, it doesn't matter how the conflict will end up," he continued.
"If suddenly the BHK is forced to reconfirm its commitment to the coalition memorandum, it will not mean that the party will be bound by the document: it can again withdraw from the document, though the fluctuations may smear the party's reputation. Anyway, the BHK will be defamed if it does not separate from Robert Kocharyan (Armenia's second president) and shrink from the responsibility for the March 1, 2008 bloodshed. The party will also lose its image if it agrees to run in the parliamentary elections with the RPA, as the latter's younger brother. It is impossible to imagine a greater abasement or self-destruction for the BHK.
Surely I cannot predict how long the conflict will last, but if the BHK turns out to be willing to quit the coalition and struggle for free and fair elections, the ANC will be ready to discuss the possibility of cooperation with the BHK.
To prevent all possible manipulations, I must say that this is not an offer of cooperation addressed to the BHK, rather, it is a theme for political speculation and analysis
The chief evil for this country are not businessmen or oligarchs but the corrupted government system. businessmen and oligarchs are simply their servants and inferiors. Authorities deliberately make them the target of hatred, trying to divert public attention from their own crimes.
If, despite all our efforts, early elections are not held in the country, which is not excluded, the ANC has no right, as an institutional force, to abstain from the regular elections.
The ANC is going to mobilize its supporters in February and March.
"May all your hopes and dreams come true in 2012. Let us go ahead without Serzh!" said Levon Ter-Petrosyan.
