HAYRIKYAN CRITICAL OF CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM PROCESS, CALLS FOR NEW “OPPOSITION” POLE
POLITICS | 18.03.15 | 14:37
Alina Nikoghosyan
ArmeniaNow intern
Several opposition forces are trying to create a new political pole
in Armenia, according to the leader of the National Self-Determination
Union (NSDU), Soviet-era dissident Paruyr Hayrikyan.
Hayrikyan told reporters Wednesday that he had meetings with
Heritage, the Armenian National Movement (ANM), Free Democrats,
Founding Parliament, and the Democratic Fatherland parties. However,
the Founding Parliament later said that they will not participate in
those meetings anymore.
“We have reached the point when each Armenian must decide whom
they side with, with Paruyr Hayrikyan and his followers, or other
semi-educated, unaware or at best some predisposed bodies,” he said.
According to the NSDU leader, another meeting will take place on
Wednesday, and discussions over constitutional changes will be on
the agenda.
“If before I did not see Armenocide in the logic of constitutional
changes, during these couple of days it became clear to me that this
is an attempt to kill the politics of the Armenian nation,” he said.
Last week President Serzh Sargsyan held a series of meetings with
seven political forces to discuss the concept of the constitutional
reform, which was later, on March 14, approved by him.