Epress.am News from Armenia
New Times party leader Aram Karapetyan won’t join the opposition bloc the Armenian National Congress (HAK) if there are no changes to HAK’s ideology. Karapetyan said this himself during a press conference in Yerevan today.
He assured the press that a “third pre-election alliance” will definitely be created — with the Heritage Party, the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) and People’s Party.
“We haven’t yet decided on joining and let me say why: The New Times party, according to official data, received 4% of the vote in the last elections. And if there’s the issue of getting into parliament, we’ll have no problem in gathering that [additional] one percent, because we have all the financial and human resources to run [in elections] alone,” he explained.
In Karapetyan’s opinion, the new political “rearrangements” will begin in Sept. of this year.
“We receive different proposals from different [political] forces; in particular, our cooperation with the People’s Party will continue, but we’re not in a hurry since it’s still early,” he said.