The Founding Parliament Movement will not surrender and will continue its fight against the ruling regime in Armenia, Zhirayr Sefilyan, the leader of the Founding Parliament, Karabakh War Hero, told reporters on May 25.
He said the strategy of the movement has changed and now they are going to fight from on two fronts: in cooperation with the opposition parties in the parliament and outside it.
He said the Founding Parliament will be cooperating with all the forces, except the ones complicit in the incidents of March 1 2008, particularly, the Police. Sefilyan said there are no obstacles to the cooperation with Nikol Pashinyan and his organization (Civil Contract - editor's choice).
However, Sefilyan is against any cooperation with Tigran Urikhanyan and his Alliance Party (Urikhanyan was spokesperson of Prosperous Armenia Party, once a member of the ruling coalition - editor's choice). Sefilyan assured reporters that the arrests of the Founding Parliament members ahead of April 24 events have in no way affected their decision to achieve a change of power. "On May 30 we will hold another rally to inform people of our further actions," he said.
Another leader of the Founding Parliament Garegin Chugaszyan said the authorities fear large-scale rallies that may grow into civil disobedience. "They proved this by pressing the members of the Founding Parliament and pointed at their weak point, and we will take advantage of it. Our slogan Centennial without the Regime has been left unchanged and we are going to overthrow the authorities by the end of the year," Chugaszyan said.