Heritage offers Prosperous Armenia quit ruling coalition for anti-forgery headquarters

PanARMENIAN.Net - Deputy chairman of the opposition Heritage Ruben Hakobyan voiced doubts that Prosperous Armenia party can participate in the inter-party headquarters to counter election forgery, along with its membership in the ruling coalition.

The very establishment of such headquarters casts doubts and demonstrates distrust to organization of free and fair elections by the ruling coalition.

“Gagik Tsarukyan (Prosperous Armenia leader) has signed both this document (on inter-party headquarters) and the coalition memorandum,” Hakobyan said with irony.

Heritage member said that all coalition parties are currently “vote-hunting”, and he does not want to point to any of them, since they all are responsible for the current situation in the country.

Armenian National Congress coordinator Levon Zurabyan voiced support for the Prosperous Armenia saying this document contradicts the coalition memorandum.

To this, Hakobyan responded that “forces representing different political poles should not advocate for each other”.

“Heritage will not engage in imitation processes and create arena for [coalition forces’] manoeuvres,” Hakobyan concluded.

For his part, Prosperous Armenia representative Vartan Oskanian said if Hakobyan believes his party’s withdrawal will promote work of the headquarters, they will quit it.

At the same time he pledged full support to this headquarters emphasizing that Prosperous Armenia intends to allocate large funding to tackle violations during the elections.