NDU calls on opposition to unite - statement

ArmInfo.  Elections are coming, which, by their very nature, are not ordinary. From this perspective, the behavior of certain opposition forces, which seem to perceive them as ordinary, is worrying. And the Armenian people have already seen what it means to participate in ordinary elections. This is  stated in a statement by Vazgen Manukyan, chairman of the National  Democratic Union Party and the first Prime Minister of the Republic  of Armenia in post-Soviet Armenia.

"Our party proposed that the opposition go into the elections with  two or three blocs of political forces sharing a unified program of  ideas and behavior, which should serve as a counterweight to Nikol  Pashinyan's destructive project. This government has already  exhausted itself. But if this government is restored, we will  gradually lose our identity and our will, depriving ourselves of the  opportunity to have a prosperous, free, secure, and proudly  developing independent state," Vazgen Manukyan said in a statement.

The politician believes that there are many political forces in the  struggle against the government, offering the people various paths  out of this deep hole and seeking to prevent the current government  from being restored. "We have been and remain in this struggle,  assisting and supporting these political forces. It is crucial now  that there is no vote scattering in the elections and that the entire  nation participates. We see our mission in these elections not in  participating separately with our party or joining any of the already  formed political forces, but in assisting these forces in  implementing their programs, namely, in putting Armenia on a path to  development. We call on our party members and supporters to actively  support those opposition political forces that are close to our  ideas: independence, sovereignty, defense, the Artsakh issue, issues  of organizing the country's internal life, and the coordinated work  of the Armenian state with global Armenian structures. We have fought  for these ideas for decades. The opposition's victory is possible.  Regardless of the election results, the National Democratic Union  will continue to fight for the realization of its ideas," the NDU  leader emphasized in a statement.