Raffi Hovhannisyan quits politics

PanARMENIAN.Net - "On September 9, Heritage party's illegitimate management body made a decision on removing Vardan Khachatryan, Movses Aristakesyan and me," Heritage party's former representative Zoya Tadevosyan told today a news conference.



She informed journalist that before adopting the decision, management board members had received a letter from Raffi Hovhanisyan in which party leader expressed his intention of quitting politics.



"Allegation that Raffi still remains a party leader are false because has quit both his party and politics," Zoya Tadevosyan said.



Tadevosyan was convinced that the letter gave party members a carte blanche for adopting such decision.



Raffi Hovhannisyan resignation, she said, caused the party to split because the name Heritage was always associated with Hovhannisyan's name.



Answering a PanARMENIAN.Net correspondent's question whether expelled party members had been informed about management board's session, Zoya Tadevosyan answered, "Yes, we were notified of session, but we didn't take part in it because we disagreed to its agenda. Moreover, we demanded that another meeting be convened before that session, but they didn't do that."



To the question concerning expelled party members' future plans, Tadevosyan answered that they might create a political club of co-thinkers in cooperation with Armenian National Congress. "We will also organize our co-thinkers' mass expulsion from that party," she said.