14.5 HAK Seats Expected in Parliament and Bring Kocharian Back: Tigran Karapetyan

I don’t consider HAK (the Armenian National Congress) to be a political force; it is a political team, said People’s Party leader Tigran Karapetyan during a press conference in Yerevan today.

“I don’t think that HAK would want to be indebted to anyone. They achieved their narrow desires, which had to do with their team. The authorities have occupied a strange position, as if they’re making concessions,” he said, adding that the agreement between HAK and the Sargsyan administration was made during the National Assembly elections.

“They won’t give [seats to] more than 15 parliamentarians, or 14.5 — 14 to HHSh [Pan-Armenian National Movement] and half to Stephan Demirchyan since he doesn’t follow their political line,” he said ironically.

According to the party leader, the Sargsyan administration and the opposition fear that the situation could spiral out of their control.

“The people might be disappointed from everyone; right now too they’re deeply disappointed. If the people want HHSh to achieve power, I have nothing to say. Everyone knows that there’s a huge segment [of the population] who want neither [Armenian President] Serzh Sargsyan nor [HAK leader and Armenia’s first president] Levon Ter-Petrossian, and those people will come with us,” he said, noting that his party can be an alternative political force.

Karapetyan is confident that a third political force is necessary for Armenia. “It’s a fact that only presidents are playing in the [political] arena today. Put [second president of Armenia] Robert Kocharian in the political field so they can play chess together,” he said.