“These elections will be a lesson for the opposition parties, especially for the People’s Party of Armenia and “National Unity”, because we were calling on them to unite back in January, but leader of the People’s Party of Armenia Stepan Demirchyan said that the principle of the “Artarutyun” (Justice) alliance of 2003 must be used in the National Assembly elections and that he must be the candidate of all the opposition parties during the 2008 presidential elections. These conditions were not beneficial for any party,” Arshak Sadoyan announced on Wednesday. Placing emphasis on the demand of the opposition parties to appeal to the Constitutional Court to recognize the election results as invalid, Sadoyan said:
“I think that some parties are simply appealing to the Constitutional Court for their own benefit. Although I am for it, now is not the time for being fooled.”
Touching upon the ongoing public meetings held by the “Impeachment” alliance, the “Republic” and “New Times” parties, Sadoyan noted:
“There is no practical proposal made during the meetings and no platform approaches. They will be purposeful if they support the solutions to the issues of certain parts of society. I had the hope that two of them would concede in favor of one, but unfortunately, that wasn’t the case.”