Armen Ashotyan presented 4 conceptual proposals to the opposition on his Facebook page. He specifically wrote:

“1. As you know, two major events will be held in Yerevan on May 4 and 5. first, the summit of the European Political Community, and then the first summit of the European Union-Armenia.

And we, as an experienced and responsible party, offer the other opposition forces, who will be busy exclusively with their campaigns, to entrust us with the task of jointly, I repeat, jointly, developing and implementing initiatives on the days of these events.

2. There is a lot of talk about the fact that in order to win the regime in the upcoming elections, it is necessary to motivate our citizens, to ensure a high rate of participation.

We announce that the activities of the Republican Party from this congress until June 7 will be aimed at promoting the participation of our compatriots in the national elections, under the slogan “Let them go”, with various actions, propaganda, information campaigns, meetings with residents.

3. It is no secret that at this stage the real opposition forces declare that they exclude any cooperation with the ruling regime.

We suggest that, in addition to similar statements of the main opposition forces, those who are in the first three dozen of the pre-election list of those forces take a moral obligation not to cooperate with the capitulating regime, not to leave the opposition field, by signing a corresponding memorandum and actually combining their political and personal positions.

4. It is known that in the work of our party, not only the fight against this regime, but also the plan to remove our country from the existing situation after the change of power was important.

Since the Republican party will not take part in the upcoming elections, we are ready to provide that repository with many program provisions to any opposition force that is interested in it.”

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