The developments in the internal relations of UCR (Union of Constitutional Rights) have discovered new facts. After the resignation of the former leader of the party, Hrant Khachatryan, the new party board has started “devil hunting”. Several days ago the board stopped the process of giving membership to Karen Vardanyan for six months. For your information, K. Vardanyan advocates Hrant Khachatryan. The latter was the first person that managed to criticize the new board, accuse them in separating the party, leaving the party out of control and financial machinations. The new board team of the party has decided to punish the advocates of Hrant Khachatryan. There is an interesting fact; the party board made its decision to cease the membership of Karen Vardanyan secretly, but not openly. “They are not such people that may call people and ask him to speak his point too. As a result of that no one will relate to them seriously”, said K. Vardanyan to our correspondent. According to the latter, the new board of the UCR is illegal and thus the decisions they are making are illegal as well. “They were elected illegally, and now they are doing whatever they want. I wish there were anyone that would stop them”, said K. Vardanyan. K. Vardanyan told us that when the party board was going to stop the membership of Haik Babukhanyan and Gegham Grigoryan, they called them and asked them to speak their points too. Furthermore, they were invited to participate in the sitting and bring their arguments as they want. However, this requirement of the by-laws was ignored when stopping the membership of Karen Vardanyan. Yesterday the new CRU head, Haik Babukhanyan told us that he had solved the conflict problems inside the party and thought the problem was solved already. According to the latter, the board punished K. Vardanyan for violating the by-laws of the arty and ceased his membership for six months. As for the requirement that K. Vardanyan has violated, Haik Babukhanyan didn’t say anything about that and noted that it was the business of their party and he didn’t have to say that. Nevertheless, Babukhanyan advises K. Vardanyan to apply to the relevant bodes to argue his interests and says that the first instance he can apply to is the control department of their party. “When they ceased my membership, I applied to that department, and thus they recovered my membership arfter studying the presented facts”, says H. Babukhanyan and advises K. Vardanyan to do the same. The next thing they can do is to bring a case. “I will do everything on the basis of the law. We will see everything in the future, let’s wait and see what will happen”, said K. Vardanyan.
According to our information, the new board of the UCR is going to cease the membership of some other advocates of Hrant Khachatryan as well.
Notwithstanding the revolution inside the UCR, Haik Babukhanyan assures that they will not change their political course in the future and they will continue being oppositional power. “We still think that there should be change of authorities in Armenia, which may be done with the help of free and democratic elections. As for this issue, the other oppositional powers are our advocates and will join our anti-criminal alliance in the future”, said H. Babukhanyan concerning their strategy. By the way, the head of the UCR thinks that the separating tendency inside the UCR was stipulated by the existing authorities. “We feel that they are trying to collapse the party and “Iravunk” newspaper. However, they failed to do so”, he said. Time will show everything, however, it is clear that the party that Haik Babukhanyan is leading is not the arty that it used to be before.