Levon Ter-Petrosyan made speech during today`s ANC rally.

Levon Ter-Petrosyan, Chairman of the opposition bloc Armenian National Congress (ANC), made a speech at the ANC rally in Yerevan on Friday.

He spoke of the ANC election program, which, he said, has been approved by all the political forces forming the ANC. He noted that the ANC is the only political force in Armenia that does not need any special election program. During its 4-year-long activities the ANC has shown itself a political factor that can prove a real counterbalance to the ruling regime.

Ter-Petrosyan stressed that the ANC has carried out tremendous work to elaborate alternative programs of political and social reforms. The ANC strategy envisages the following steps:

- 100 steps. A socio-economic policy reform program
- Basic provisions of the healthcare policy
- A pension reforms program
- A long-term comprehensive education development program
- A cultural manifesto
- An election process reform platform
- A national environmental safety concept
- A long-term higher education and scientific development program
- A judicial reform concept
- An industrial development program
- Urgent agricultural development measures

According to Ter-Petrosyan, the ANC will implement all the aforementioned reforms should it come to power and create real conditions for establishment of real democracy in Armenia.

“Given the fact that Serzh Sargsyan seized presidential power in Armenia through gross violations of the Election Code, election rigging and murdering peaceful demonstrators, we must immediately raise the issue of his resignation and prosecution.”

The ANC leader stressed the need for forming impartial parliamentary commissions with broad powers to prepare legally binding report on the crimes on October 27, 1999, and March 1, 2008. Ter-Petrosyan also calls for imposing severe punishment on the government officials violating the right to freedom of assembly.

“Not a single vote for the criminal regime!”

The rally was followed by a traditional march through the central streets of the Armenian capital.