Unification of Raffi Hovannisian's movement, Sardarat Movement, and Armenian National Congress would become a response to the challenges and problems Armenia is facing now, Ashot Manucharyan, former advisor of the first president of Armenia for national security, a member of the Karabakh Committee, told media, Monday.
He said that the Armenian people are most likely to follow the above opposition forces and their fragmentation is inadmissible. Manucharyan said that as long as a political force or a politician in both the opposition and the government care for its position, money and power, that force or politician will just play in the hands of "the current system" which is extremely destructive for the country. He thinks that the number of Armenians residing in Russia is higher than the population of Armenia. The USA and Canada together will also outstrip Armenia. Population outflow is a national disaster for Armenia, Manucharyan said.
As regards the incidents of April 9 in the Baghramyan Ave, the politician said that something that rejected the current course of life happened that day, but no new model of governance has been created. "Being categorically against representative democracy I offered Raffi Hovannisian to create a system of direct democracy. I offered setting up civil assembly headquarters in the regions to mobilize the public and exert the necessary pressure on the authorities," he said.
Manucharyan thinks that if the people do not go to the streets, anyone on the post of the president will be just head of the regional office of the world capital that "killed Muammar Gaddafi for disobeying."