ArmInfo.Seyran Ohanyan, the Ex Minister of Defense, Vardan Oskanyan and Raffi Hovannisian, former Ministers of Foreign Affairs, leading the factions of Solidarity and Heritage factions respectively, signed an Agreement on participating to elections as a single bloc.
"We realize, that there is a need to capsulate a power of quite new type to resist internal and external challenges standing in front of the country. We accept also that to improve the social life, to solve the problems of the country, it is necessary to forget own ambitions and to be ruled exclusively by the interests of the country. Trying to meet the public requirement on consolidation of political and social rtesources, and considering the upcoming elections as very important, we decided to sign an Agreement on participation in elections as a single bloc. The authors of the document mentioned also that the bloc is open for cooperation with all the political powers and flows, as well as with certain politicians concerned with the future of Armenia and Artsakh.
Raffi Hovannisian, the leader of the Heritage faction, stated that parties initiated this struggle for the independence of Armenia and the territorial integrity of Artsakh. We will struggle for our heroes and our political prisoners," he accentuated.
In his turn, Vardan Oskanyan, the leader of the Solidarity faction, stated that the consolidation of the parties is an exclusive opportunity to change the situation in the country. "e are sure that many things in the country could be changed very fast. The ruling authorities are an obstacle for the development of Armenia, of its security and sustainability," he said. At that, he said that signing of this document is a historical event.
To mention, the bloc was joined also by the Justice Party and People Party, as well as Unified Armenians and Independent Judge NGOs. And the faction of Third Republic refused to cooperate with the bloc.