Crowded Meetings Not a Priority for Tigran Karapetyan

People’s Party leader Tigran Karapetyan is not striving to increase the turnout at his gatherings. Karapetyan said so himself while speaking to journalists in Yerevan today about the fact that the Jun. 29 gathering by the National Front (a group established by his party) at the government building took place in a half-empty room.

“If other political entities strive to make their gathering crowded — we don’t consider that a priority. We are self-willed; self-styled people have to come, if they want; if they don’t want, let them not come. To see that it depends on them, not us, because to fill a room, you understand, is nothing big,” he said.

Karapetyan did not agree with the Armenian National Congress’ plans for meetings to be held in the regions.

“They go to the villages; they exhort; they send cars. Now if I go and exhort… what should I exhort? Why should I exhort? That has to be their gathering; they have to exhort [persuade] for us to be together. What is this, am I pursuing my own personal interest?” he said.