Saturday, October 11 2014

 The Oct 10 opposition rally has shown that Prosperous Armenia is the leader of the "magnificent four," Director of Director of the Armenian Institute of International and Security Affairs Stepan Safaryan told journalists on Saturday.  

He said that the decision-makers in the four are the leaders of Prosperous Armenia and Armenian National Congress Gagik Tsarukyan and Levon Ter-Petrosyan. "That's why they did not wait for the leader of Heritage Party Raffi Hovannisian and started the rally without him. I think Hovannisian is aware of this but for some unknown reasons he is not withdrawing from the four," Safaryan said.

He said that during the Oct 10 rally Tsarukyan made it clear that he is going to run for presidency, while Ter-Petrosyan is trying to convince Prosperous Armenia to join Armenian National Congress in its call for the President's resignation. "The opposition are taking time but are pretending that they are going to act quickly just not to let the people cool," Safaryan said