Epress.am News from Armenia
The coalition declaration signed last week is usurpation by the ruling authorities, said People’s Party leader, ALM Holding LLC President Tigran Karapetyan, speaking to journalists in Yerevan today.
“Those forces which can compete or be opposing in electoral processes, or generally in administrative issues, today have joined, and it’s quite likely they will run in elections with a single list [of candidates] and by telling people, ‘well, what do you want, we’ve joined with leading powers.’ They did the same in the television sector,” said Karapetyan, who’s own ALM was deprived of a broadcasting license following competitions announced last year.
According to him, a thought has formed in Armenia today whereby “there are the ruling authorities who have become more arrogant; there is opposition which strives to [get in] the seat and there’s a new opposition.”
“The new opposition, that’s us. It’s not that the People’s Party is fighting for the seat, but rather, has come out onto the streets in the name of justice. But justice doesn’t completely exist in this state, there’s a monopoly in every sector, instability, an atmosphere of impunity, of everything’s allowed,” he said.
Karapetyan also talked about his upcoming Feb. 28 rally, noting “to the surprise of many, it will be crowded.”
“On Feb. 15, when we decided to bring our convention out onto the street, it seemed to some that the number of people has decreased. The people cannot decrease, there will always be people around justice. We can mollify it only by destroying it,” he concluded.