Ruben Tovmasyan, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Armenian Communist Party, said on April 12 that his party wants further enforcement of Armenia’s alliances with Russia in the Collective Security Treaty Organization, News.am reports.
The party says that the country needs to improve staff, making it more responsible to end corruption, bribery and clan formation. The parliament needs a law on dismissal of MPs and stripping them of their immunity.
Consolidation of civilians and the military should become one of the main goals of the country, Tovmasyan says. Armenia and Russia must oppose NATO expansion together, he stresses.
The Single Progressive Communist Party has decided to unite with the Communist Party of Armenia into a single proportional list for the parliamentary polls on May 6. Vazgen Safaryan, leader of progressive communists, said that he is second in the list. The party had parliamentary seats in 1990-2003. It got 12.1% of vote in 1999. It is a pro-Russian political party with close contacts with the Russian Communist Party of Gennady Zyuganov.
