NZhK Leader: "Political domain resembles paradoxes"
The political domain of Armenia resembles a large collection of paradoxes, Aram Karapetyan, Leader of the New Times Party (NZhK) told a news conference on May 16.
"The first paradox is that political forces resorted to rhetoric during the May 6 parliamentary elections, garnered enough votes for parliamentary seats and are now forming a coalition with the authorities," said the NZhK leader.
"Second, the more people leave the country, the deeper poverty gets and the more people cast votes for the coalition parties.
"Third, the prime minister is against the country's involvement in the Customs Union since Armenia does not have borders with the Union member states. On the other hand, the premier is for the country's membership to the European Union though we do not have borders with the EU countries either.
"The forth paradox is that Armenia has a strong president, who heads the executive body, a highly politicized parliament, prime minister and ministers whereas in other countries, either the parliament is strong and politicized or the president."Finally, they pledged to break up the monopoly and form a new kind of legislature but the same oligarchs were re-elected to parliament," he said.
