Armenian National Congress: Year 2010 will be the year of our victory
2010-01-08 17:31:00
ArmInfo. Armenian National Congress (ANC) is sure that the year 2010
will be the year of their victory. "ANC has no intention to limit
itself with moral victories, it is going to act," said Aram Manukyan,
Chairman of the Armenian Pan-National Movement, at the ANC rally in
Yerevan on January 8 2010.
He said that voting for Nikol Pashinyan the residents of the electoral
district 10 will vote not for a person, but for the freedom of speech,
release of political prisoners and punishment of those guilty in the
incidents of March 11-2 2008.
For his part, Hmayak Hovhannissyan, the political expert who withdrew
his candidature in favor of N. Pashinyan, the editor of Haykakan
Zhamanak Daily, said that voting for Pashinyan the people will protect
the honor and dignity of those killed on March 1-2 2008, which was
dishonored by the notorious parliamentary ad hoc committee headed by
Samvel Nikoyan. Hovhannissyan compared the activities of the incumbent
authorities with the terror of Stalin’s epoch.
In addition, ANC Coordinator Levon Zurabyan said that ANC will lead
the people to the victory despite the counteractions by the incumbent
authorities. "We do not hope that the election scheduled for January
10 will be fair and free. With every falsified election the
authorities are becoming weaker and we are becoming stronger," he
said. He is sure that opposition movement will finally gain victory.
For his part, Stepan Demirchyan, Leader of the People’s Party of
Armenia, called on the participants in the rally to vote for Pashinyan
"to say no to the murders of March 1 and to the unfair power regime in
the country".
The ANC rally is timed to the additional parliamentary elections in
the election district No10 scheduled for January 10. Nikol Pashinyan,
the oppositionist, the editor of Haykakan Zhamanak Daily, who is
currently in custody, advanced his candidature at the elections.
Pashinyan is charged with Articles 316.1 and 225.1 of the Armenian
Criminal Code (organizing mass public disturbances, using force
against a representative of the state and violating the law regarding
the staging of public events). Pashinyan had been wanted for over a
year and emerged from the underground after the president announced
amnesty. The deputy mandate of the above election district proved
vacant after the former parliamentarian Khachatur Sukiasyan was
deprived of his mandate for complicity in the incidents of March 2008
in Yerevan.