Raffi Hovhannisyan will respond to Serzh Sargsyan’s letter today

As Raffi K. Hovannisian entered the sixteenth day of his hunger strike at Liberty Square, the Barevolution series of public forums continued to attract activist crowds to the heart of the capital. Led by Stepan Safaryan, secretary general for international affairs of the Heritage Party, and joined by intellectual Vardan Hakobyan of the pre-parliament movement, the day’s discussions were moderated by Levon Bagramian. Raffi Hovhannisyan headquarters informs about this. 

“The de facto authorities have been truly taken aback by this movement, which has taken over our republic,” Safaryan said. “They must now understand that unless they take definitive steps toward the Armenian people, this situation will devolve into a crisis for the entire country.”

Earlier in the day, Hovannisian had received a letter from acting president Serzh Sargsyan. He will respond to it today, before taking part in the next public forum, to be led by Petros Makeyan of the Democratic Fatherland Party and Manvel Gasparyan of the Democratic Way Party. Both of these parties have joined the Heritage Party and others to form the Barev Yerevan coalition, which will contest the May 5 Yerevan municipal elections.