From: Abraham Rein (ARein@sorosny.org)
Date: Mon Oct 16 2000 - 11:27:25 EDT
PEOPLE'S PARTY REJECTS ARMENIAN PREMIER'S CONDITIONS FOR
PRESERVING MAJORITY BLOC... Stepan Demirchian, chairman of
the People's Party of Armenia (HZhK), which is the junior
partner in the majority Miasnutiun parliament bloc, told
supporters in Kotayk province on 14 October that he refuses
to share responsibility for the performance of the cabinet
headed by Andranik Markarian, RFE/RL's Yerevan bureau
reported. Markarian, who heads the Republican Party of
Armenia, the HZhK's partner within Miasnutiun, has repeatedly
made the survival of Miasnutiun contingent on a pledge by the
HZhK of support for his cabinet (see "RFE/RL Newsline," 13
October 2000). Demirchian said that the collapse of
Miasnutiun would necessitate preterm parliamentary elections,
adding that any attempt by Markarian to forge a new
parliamentary majority without the HZhK would be
illegitimate. LF
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