The Chairwoman of Social Democrat Hunchakian Party (SDHP) Lyudmila Sargsyan said that does not consider a Dec.16 Tsakhkadzor congress convened by a group of Hunchaks a congress, she told in an interview with NEWS.am.

Asked why extraordinary congress was held behind closed doors, which is an RA legislation outrage, Sargsyan replied: “It was closed, so as the journalists wouldn’t see the men of the street attending the congress. There were no Hunchaks there.”

A group of Hunchakian Party members, led by Vahan Shirkhanyan, organized an extraordinary closed congress in Tsakhkadzor. A minority group calling themselves Hunchaks intends to expel the duly elected leader Lyudmila Sargsyan from the party.

She accused the closed congress organizers of attempts to withdraw SDHP from Armenian National Congress and sell out to authorities.

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