{"id":251987,"date":"2014-04-10T11:29:17","date_gmt":"2014-04-10T07:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=251987"},"modified":"2014-04-10T11:30:04","modified_gmt":"2014-04-10T07:30:04","slug":"raffi-hovannisian-ready-to-meet-with-other-opposition-party-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2014\/04\/10\/raffi-hovannisian-ready-to-meet-with-other-opposition-party-leaders.html","title":{"rendered":"Raffi Hovannisian Ready to Meet with Other Opposition Party Leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Without the people&#39;s demand and cooperation of political parties, the prime minister&#39;s resignation would not have happened, said Heritage Party leader Raffi Hovannisian (pictured) on April 9 in Liberty Square, adding that, in his opinion, the resignation decision was made 1&ndash;2 months ago.&nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe opposition leader mentioned the events of April 9 last year, when Hovannisian&#39;s &quot;alternative inauguration&quot; was held in the public square at the same time as Serzh Sargsyan&#39;s official presidential inauguration; however, he added that he will try to no longer speak about the past.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&quot;Last year, together we were unable to bring the struggle to its final destination, but political and civic forces should be able this month to insist the people&#39;s demand of a complete change of government. For us, April 9 is a symbolic day, a day of shame and false oaths. And if it continues this way, and we embrace the month of May without significant change, we can write off our country&#39;s sovereignty, national interest, the recognition of the Genocide, the independence of Artsakh, and Armenia&#39;s independence from our future textbooks, as Armenia loses its status as a subject,&quot; he said.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAt the same time, Hovannisian stressed that since the leaders of parliamentary and extra-parliamentary forces have not yet met, there can be no talk of quartet (referring to the four parties not part of the ruling coalition: Heritage Party, Armenian National Congress, Armenian Revolutionary Federation, and Prosperous Armenia Party) or global cooperation.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&quot;I am ready to meet with Mr. Ter-Petrossian, Mr. Tsarukyan, Mr. Margaryan and the leaders of extra-parliamentary forces to express a unified approach,&quot; he said.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tHovannisian added that the Heritage Party won&#39;t have a representative in government under the current regime.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The opposition leader mentioned the events of April 9 last year, when Hovannisian&#8217;s &#8220;alternative inauguration&#8221; was held in the public square at the same time as&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":220264,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[53246,12077,22513,11161],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251987"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}