Opposition leader insists on referendum of no confidence in Armenian leader
Mediamax news agency
2 Mar 05
YEREVAN
The opposition Justice bloc insists on conducting a referendum of no
confidence in the Armenian president, the leader of the Justice
faction and the chairman of the People’s Party of Armenia, Stepan
Demirchyan, told a news conference at the National Press Club today.
He said “an unfavourable social situation has developed in the country
and it will be possible to get the republic out of this crisis only by
conducting a referendum of no confidence in the president”.
Stepan Demirchyan reiterated the thesis that the opposition had won
the 2003 presidential elections in Armenia, “however, that victory
wasn’t secured”.
“We can see the process through to its logical end,” the leader of the
Justice bloc said. At the same time, when commenting on the
revolutions in Georgia and Ukraine and a possible repeat of such a
scenario in Armenia, Stepan Demirchyan said that he “prefers to
describe this as the restoration of constitutional order, not as a
revolution”.
“We intend to struggle for the restoration of order without any shocks
for the population and hope to solve our tasks only by peaceful
means,” he said.