‘“I didn’t believe from the beginning that the cooperation of these two parties would yield a positive result. Considering those differences [between them], the foundation of such speedy union does not have relations and trust toward one another that would bring positive results,’ [Alaverdyan said].
With respect to [Heritage Chairman] Raffi Hovannisian’s announcement that the leaders of both [political] forces were to give up their [parliamentary] mandates after the parliamentary elections and Anush Sedrakyan’s refutation in this connection, Alaverdyan said Hovannisian said one thing, [but] the Free Democrats understood something else.
‘I have absolutely no doubt that Raffi Hovannisian understood what he said and the answer he received as such, whereas the Free Democrats understood [it] in another way,” Aravot writes.
As Armenian News-NEWS.am informed earlier, Raffi Hovannisian had submitted a formal petition to give up his parliamentary mandate and National Assembly (NA) Speaker Hovik Abrahamyan had announced it during the NA session. And, in line with NA procedures, if Hovannisian did not withdraw his petition within fifteen days after its publicizing in the NA session, his petition was to be automatically approved and his parliamentary mandate was to be removed. And those fifteen days have expired.
Raffi Hovannisian was elected MP from Heritage’s proportional election list which he headed and which likewise included candidates from the Free Democrats Party.
