April 19 marks the launch of New Armenia's movement that will consolidate the whole opposition field to fight the ruling regime, Heritage Party leader Raffi Hovannisian said during the meeting with his supporters on Friday. He said that all political forces can join the movement provided that they will
fight till the end. He stressed that it is the movement of the people who won on Feb 18.
Hovannisian said that on April 9 the Armenian authorities demonstrated that they will stick at nothing and will even sacrifice their own people to maintain their personal power. He thinks that there is no time to wait for 5 more years and it is necessary to find the ways to overthrow the power as soon as possible. The Heritage leader calls on all presidents who "were elected but did not rule Armenia, as well as the political forces that were elected but did
not become a parliamentary majority" to join him and conduct a joint fight "against the evil".
To note, Petros Makeyan, Chairman of the Democratic Motherland Party, which has been a member of the Armenian National Congress before, was also present at the meeting. So were Hovhannes Igityan, former member of the Board of the Armenian National Movement Party, which no longer exists, and Armen Rustamyan, Head of the ARF Dashnaktsutyun Faction.
Rustamyan said that to make the ruling regime resign and to avoid bloodshed, the opposition should use soft power in its fight. He reiterated the ARFD's position that it is necessary to change the governance system as soon as possible and to switch to the parliamentary regime. "The Parliament should have the people who deserve being in Parliament, not the ones the President or the ruling party wants to see", Rustamyan said.
He thinks that the levers of the anti-corruption fight should belong to the opposition. "The Prime Minister cannot fight corruption, because he is corrupted himself. If the authorities really want to fight corruption, the relevant commission set up by the Government should be headed by the opposition", said Rustamyan.