YEREVAN. – The obstacle standing in the way of Armenia’s Free Democrats and Heritage parties is Heritage’s Board Chairman and National Assembly Faction Secretary Ruben Hakobyan, Free Democrats Party Chairman and aforesaid faction member Khachatur Kokobelyan told news reporters on Monday following the faction session.  

In his words, after the parliamentary elections the Free Democrats had asked that Hakobyan be removed from Heritage’s list. “We proposed that [Heritage MP] Zaruhi Postanjyan, and not Ruben Hakobyan, represent Heritage,” Kokobelyan said stressing that the disagreements within the faction are linked with Hakobyan.      

In response to the query as to whether the Free Democrats’ representatives could maintain their parliamentary seats yet leave the Heritage Faction, Khachatur Kokobelyan promised to issue a respective statement and to clarify their future course of action.