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“What I want —the possibility of systemic change — when there’s [Armenian President] Serzh [Sargsyan] on one side and [Armenian National Congress (HAK) leader] Levon [Ter-Petrossian] on the other, who are already moving toward dialogue, I don’t see it [happening]. I joined the nationwide movement expecting radical changes. Now I don’t even see the prospect of this,” said writer, publicist Marine Petrosyan, speaking to local daily Aravot (“Morning”).
Asked if prior to “the HAK-authorities understanding” there was such a “resource of systemic changes” and whether the opposition was able to make changes or had this resource, Petrosyan said:
“If on the wave of 2008, when the situation and environment were quite different, everything was done quickly… I cannot say, because perhaps I’ve had wrong expectations. But at the time I believed in those changes; if changes were made in the country on that wave of rise and rebirth and there was an ideological divide in HAK, the normal political process would be reinstated in our country.”
Petrosyan, who up until recently was a HAK supporter, noted that the Apr. 28 HAK rally won’t be “a day of the final watershed” between the authorities and the public as the opposition previously announced.
“It will be another day of delay. It definitely won’t be a day of watershed because it’s clear that HAK’s three demands, nearly all of them, are being fulfilled and that provides grounds for Ter-Petrossian to say that there’s no need for watershed,” she said.