Yesterday the former head of the Heritage parliamentary faction Raffi Hovannisian said that the Heritage, the Armenian National Congress and the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) should now put aside their differences and start “a series of consultations” aimed at creating a “new cooperation framework.” “I think that cooperation is necessary,” he said. “I, for example, believe that both the ANC and Dashnaktsutyun are established forces and that it would be good if they … created a tradition of broader opposition collaboration.” To the question of our reporter as to whether Hovhannisian shares the allegations made against the ANC by a Heritage MP Zaruhi Postanjyan Raffi Hovannisian was more cautious in his assessment of the ANC’s electoral performance, even if he agreed that the Ter-Petrosyan-led alliance could have done better had it “organized its tactics correctly.” “Zaruhi and Armen belong to those citizens who have put their life, their health, their knowledge to the service of the democratic movement wholeheartedly and without any compensation,” he told reporters. “They have the right to express their opinions after so many months and years.” “I think that the opposition could have gained more votes. If the opposition really planned its tactics efficiently the results would be slightly different,” he said.
