Tigran Karapetyan: HHK will not benefit from conflict with BHK (video)
The Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) will not benefit from the conflict with Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) leader Gagik Tsarukyan, says Chairman of the People’s Party (ZhK) Tigran Karapetyan. On Sunday, Mr Karapetyan watched an interview of Education Minister Armen Ashotyan and was greatly disappointed. “Ashotyan was criticizing Tsarukyan’s way of speaking but does he speak correctly himself? Both Ashotyan and [Eduard] Sharmazanov were once guests at the ALM studio and I saw how they sought for words to express their thoughts,” he said. Instead of speaking about Tsarukyan’s level of speech, they had better care about our children serving in Karabakh, speed camera and the businesses owned by the Republicans, advises Tigran Karapetyan. Speaking about Serzh Sargsyan’s speech in which he said Tsarukyan must be ousted from politics and ordered tax inspections of his numerous businesses, the ZhK leader says the speech was not characteristic of a country’s leader. “They say Tsarukyan does not pay taxes. Was it something new for them? Do Republicans pay taxes?” Mr Karapetyan accounts the Republicans’ actions for the fact that they felt a threat from the BHK: people like Gagik Tsarukyan and his Prosperous Armenia Party. “Tsarukyan has been engaged in philanthropy. But what have the authorities done for our people?” he says. Speaking about [second President] Robert Kocharyan’s return to politics, Tigran Karapetyan said he did not think people will let Kocharyan’s comeback. In conclusion, the ZhK leader said he was going to attend the nationwide rally to be held by the BHK, Armenian National Congress and Heritage in Liberty Square this Friday. He also said if the BHK came to power and offered him office he would refuse to accept it. “I do not want any office. I shall turn 70 this year and I have seen everything in my life. I do not need anything,” he said.
