Major Political Forces Attend Heritage Party Congress. Republican Party of Armenia Notably Absent

No representatives of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia were present at a congress convened by the Heritage party currently underway in the hall for government meetings.

Present at the congress were Vahan Hovhannesyan and Armen Rustamyan from Dashnaktsutyun; Naira Zohrabyan and Vartan Oskanian from the Prosperous Armenia Party (a junior partner in the ruling coalition); Khachatur Kokobelyan, Ararat Zurabyan, Anush Sedrakyan and Alexander Arzumanyan from the Free Democrats party; Stepan Demirchyan, Aram Sargsyan, Sasun Mikaelyan, Petros Makeyan, Armenak Dovlatyan and Vardan Malkhasyan from the Armenian National Congress.

Recall, Heritage Party leader Raffi Hovannisian had said earlier, it would be wise for the country’s president and head of the Republican Party of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan to meet with members of the opposition, the Armenian National Congress, the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun), and the Heritage Party.