David Hakobyan: I earned the right to my mandate

PanARMENIAN.Net - "Society and journalists are eager to know whether Elders' Council will deprive David Hakobyan of his mandate. The entire burden of political responsibility lies upon Armenian National Congress," Marxist Party's leader David Hakobyan told a press conference in Yerevan.



"Someone came to me yesterday with a written statement expressing our party's intention to declare a boycott. He asked me to sign the document, and I told him that for declaring a general boycott it was necessary to have a list with the signatures of 130 MPs. I didn't sign anything because we are against boycotts. I have struggled for ANC and opposition for two years. I don't want to seize a mandate; I have earned the right to have one," Mr. Hakobyan said.



According to the Marxist leader, ANC is facing a choice: to follow the tactics of boycott or seize mandates and "crash" Republicans with its "own weapon". "We, the Marxists, have come to the conclusion that opposition needs those mandates as political tools. Thus, during presidential elections, ANC obtained 150 thousand votes and now they have only 70 thousand votes. This means we're losing our electorate, i.e. 14 mandates that could exert psychological pressure upon authorities. We find such step 'political idiotism," Hakobyan said. "If, after working for 3 months, we see that our work is fruitless, we can resign without any problem. Nobody understands the style of my criticism. The principal task of each Marxist and politician is to re-educate rather than trample on criminal and political villains.



Mr. Hakobyan finds that people in Armenia do not properly understand the meaning of the word "revolution". "Neither the Republic of Armenia and nor political entities can stage revolution, without realizing its meaning. Revolution means to change public economic formation, i. e. make transition from capital to social-liberal economy. That's why, revolution is out of the question, especially in Armenia," he said.