COMMUNIST PARTY LEADER ANSWERING OUR CORRESPONDENT’S QUESTIONS

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Discord broken between Armenian Communist Party Tovmassyan-leaning members and their recently expelled fellow partisans escalated into a free-for-all on Nov 20, just before the party’s 36th conference opening ceremony.

Although former communists were denied entry, the party leader Ruben Tovmassyan lost consciousness while presenting his report and was rushed to a hospital.

The out-of-favor communists say the conference must be announced illegitimate.

What Ruben Tovmassyan thinks about that?

”The conference was legitimate and a number of documents were adopted then”, Tovmassyan said in an interview given to our correspondent on Monday, the very first day he came to office after that notorious conference.

In his words, the evicted members of the party stood at the entrance to the building with banners barring the conference delegates from attending the event.

The Communist Party leader finds their conduct unacceptable denouncing it as an apparent attempt to cast shed on the conference and split the party.

The correspondent asked what he could answer to accusation that he didn’t continue the line of the party former chair Sergey Badalyan after his sudden death.

Tovmassyan denied the accusation saying there was no any shift from his policy and the party continued to consider Badalyan as leader and remained stuck to his line after his death. He said accusers had always behaved the same way even at the time when Badalyan was alive.

“Armenian Communist Party is the most steadfast opposition and the most firm and determined party in the republic. It remains devoted to the best principles inherited from Badalyan and Soviet Union’s Communist Party”, he said.

Ruben Tovmassyan is interviewed by Karine Asatryan.