TIME FOR REVOLUTION
Support A1+!Today New Times party leader, former ARFD member Aram Karapetyan invited journalists to declare about his intention start a ''revolution from below'' in April. Several months earlier he warned the authorities that if they do not make serious system changes, he will launch a popular revolution. ''No changes took place, while the removal of some ministers from office was a mere imitation'', he said.
Karapetyan warned that the April revolution will be peaceful, like the one that forced Levon Ter-Petrosyan to resign. He also said that he has already informed the police chiefs that thorny hedge and budget funds will prove useless. ''By the way, when we for the first time announced that we are going to start a popular revolution, worried statements appeared in the newspapers supported by the forces, which seized power in 1998 by means of military and violence''. When answering the question “for what reasons Aram Karapetyan is better than Stepan Demirchyan or Artashes Geghamyan, who failed to seize power last April, he said, “Situation was different then. Our people did not see the outcomes of the developments in the CIS” (the matter concerns latest developments in Ukraine)and added that the Armenian revolution will not have a color. “The most important thing is that we are not going to use force, we will just take the power with the help of the mass”.
As for the Karabakh issue, Karapetyan’s approaches do not differ from the leadership’s position. He just states that the authorities do not have precise policy, they do not have a strong state and do not enjoy the people’s support. Aram Karapetyan stated he is sure of victory. “If we do not win, we will be imprisoned”, he resumed.
