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On the fight against the Armenia-Turkey Protocols and the bill on emergency rule adopted in parliament, as well as the push to move to a 100% proportional representation voting system in the parliamentary election, the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktustyun, or ARF-D) and the Heritage Party have stood together, said head of the ARF-D parliamentary faction Vahan Hovhannesyan at the Heritage Party’s 7th Congress today.
Hovhannesyan said the two parties have to continue to work together so that after the elections, the people won’t have reason to be in an uproar — and for this to happen, according to him, they have to win.
Leader of the newly established Free Democrats party Khachatur Kokobelyan, in his address, said in recent years, the Heritage Party has been able to find itself in the center of the struggle. According to him, Armenia is currently entering a new stage and all those people and political forces who are concerned with the fate of the country cannot not participate in the upcoming elections.
Also addressing those gathered at the congress was former politically imprisoned and former Armenian National Congress member Karapet Rubinyan, who said that over the years the Heritage Party has garnered attention for its “civic principled position” and its fight against the illegal actions of the “regime”.
Rubinyan expressed hope that the party will have its weighty presence in the next parliament and expressed his joy in the Heritage Party’s cooperation with the Free Democrats.
Note, after the speeches at the opposition party’s 7th Congress, Free Democrats member Ararat Zurabyan once again reminded those gathered that his party will form an alliance with the Heritage Party. Nothing, however, was said about the party lists for the May 6 parliamentary elections.
