Vote 2012: Rookie candidate says Heritage is not an opposition party

Independent candidate, journalist Gohar Veziryan, says she has an advantage against party-nominated because voters are weary of party-based politics.

At a press-conference on Wednesday, the first-time politician journalist boldly stated that her opponent party is itself not oppositional.

"A political force, which states that after the elections they are planning to join the ruling coalition and holds secret meetings with the authorities, a political force, which arranges secret meetings and decides that during the campaign they will not carp at the authorities, how can it be an opposition," says Veziryan, a reporter for Chorrod Inknishkhanutyun daily (Forth Sovereignty; with a circulation of about 1000).  Read more... (391 words)

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