As the businessmen
entered into "Orinats Erkir" for insuring their business as well as
they leave the party for not threatening it. Yesterday it became clear
that those "OEP" members together with Arthur Baghdasarian who voted
against the account of the realization of privatization of State Estate in 2001-2003
or were absent on 13 of April don’t leave the party. And almost all deputies who
abstained from the voting /Samvel Shahgaldian, Grigor Margarian, Alexan Petrosian,
Sayad Zakharian, Arshak Mkhitarian/ have written settlements for leaving the group
without explanations. OEP deputy leader Mher Shahgeldian didn’t interpret the
circumstance that 13 deputies from 20 remained in the group. Giving the same answer
to all questions; " We’ll express our official position and approaches one
of these days". And Hovhannes Margarian simply mentioned that "Orinats
Erkir" had 62 thousand members and it wasn’t a tragedy if 61994 remained.Instead,
the official newspaper of "Orinats Erkir" gives sharp appraisals. The
main hero of the newspaper is the RPA group leader Galust Sahakian where it is
written; "Each negative speech pronounced by him gives more results as everybody
knows him" but it is mentioned in one of the publications that there are
people who become nervous hearing Arthur Baghdasarian’s name and his party. First
is Galust Sahakian, that is the RPA parliamentary group leader. It is very interesting
that Galust Sahakian began speaking about "behavior". But we can hardly
bear it when a person speaks about what he doesn’t have. But we have always thought
that a politician like him must think in first what he speaks about. For example
what Mr. Sahakian thought when he said that the RPA was against Arthur Baghdasarian’s
candidacy as the NA chairman in 2003." There are affirmations that the OEP
group distraction had been coordinated by the President’s personnel, to our question
whether the RPA was interested in it Mr. Sahakian answered; "We don’t have
any connection with it and don’t welcome such demonstrations". The explanation
of the RPA group why businessmen deputies leave the party was the following; "I
don’t think that this have connection with business. Simply people felt themselves
cheated". We were interested whether he had spoken to those deputies, is
he sure that they feel themselves cheated and Mr. Sahakian answered; " It’s
natural that I have spoken as I also have friendly relations with some of them.
Thus, the OEP is the forth group by its quantity and yields as the RPA and
"People’s deputy" as well as "Justice". Anyway its representative
can lead the parliament at request. Galust Sahakian assures that they won’t demand
Arthur Baghdasarian’s resignation; "I think we shouldn’t change the formats
and rules of the game in the half way". But he also mentioned if Arthur Baghdasarian
"sends in his resignation I’ll respect him more". But OEP representatives
don’t interpret the published news that Arthur Baghdasarian was ready to take
the step by which Galust Sahakian would respect him. But the OEP deputies assured
him not to take that step. Hovhannes Margarian simply mentioned that OEP leader
doesn’t want to keep his post and authority. And Mher Shahgeldian repeating Arthur
Baghdasarian’s words said; "If we consider that discrepancies and dissents
are so much that it is impossible to work together we can leave the coalition.
This is our approach".Anna Israelian
