May 4, 2007

Heritage Hosts Town Hall Meetings in Yerevan

Yerevan—Today, May 4, Heritage toured the republic’s capital with a busload of candidates, volunteers, and supporters. The party bus “Toward Victory” made key stops in Erebuni, Nork-Marash, Nor Nork, and Central Yerevan. At the Aram Khachatrian statue by the Opera, hundreds of citizens braved the heavy rain to exchange words with Raffi K. Hovannisian. With redoubled confidence in party and country, Hovannisian announced the beginning of a new era for Armenia.

Earlier in the day, Heritage candidates Larisa Alaverdian and Zaruhi Postanjian, along with party spokesman Hovsep Khurshudian, addressed print, internet, and broadcast media at the Yerevan Hotel, where the Forum Club had called a press briefing. The discussion circled around the integrity of the upcoming parliamentary elections. Party representatives maintained that it is not the desirability of the final results, but rather the quality of the process that will determine the fairness of the elections. They asserted that the party will follow with vigilance every instance of fraud, falsification, and corruption. As to the question of post-election protests, Khurushudian did not rule anything out, saying that the party’s reaction will depend on the authenticity of election results.

With hope for a clean contest but readiness for distortions of the national will, Heritage marches confidently toward victory.