PROPOSAL

Hovhaness Hovhanisyan, the leader of Liberal Progressive Party of Armenia makes a suggestion on possible political developments: Levon Ter-Petrosyan- President, Serge Sargsyan-Prime Minister.

Mr. Hovhanisyan also participates in the regional visits of the First President and is sure that the latter is the only person who will be able to change the situation in Armenia, establish democracy in the country and settle the NK conflict: “ The tactics, President Levon Ter-Petrosyan has used, are right and justified enough both politically and ideologically”. In answer to our question which kind of questions are being discussed during those meetings, he said that “very free, sincere conversations are being held about everything: “The meetings aren’t held in politically strained atmosphere, just the opposite, the First President manages to create such an atmosphere, and people express their opinion, anxieties, thoughts about the future of our country”. Not only ANM representatives participate in the meetings, but the members of other parties, and non-partisans as well. “There are a lot of politicians who want to participate in those meetings, but the format of the meetings is still this which is justified. I think there will be one-two visits, to include the whole republic, and then the president will summarize those meetings and will make his political decision.”

We noticed that Mr. Hovhanisyan was calling  Levon Ter-Petrosyan  “president” instead of calling “first president”. Mr. Hovhanisyan reminded: “It is a common order, there is no former president or prime minister, Levon Ter-Petrosyan is President, and we should call him President”.

We also were interested  what is Mr. Hovhanisyan’s opinion about other presidential candidates, in particular Serge Sargsyan, Vazgen Manukyan, Arthur Baghdasaryan and others. It became clear that our interlocutor wasn’t sure that the above-mentioned politicians would nominate their candidacy: “ It is too early to speak about them as presidential candidates, since it is not clear yet who will nominate his candidacy for the presidential elections. But it is much more essential that we should understand that in case of which politician’s nomination our problems will be solved”.

We noticed that nowadays the ruling RPA has very serious intention to participate  and win in the presidential  elections, and we can’t take this power into consideration. In answer to this Mr. Hovhanisyan said that if the RPA hold the presidential position, it will mean that a dictatorship will be set up. He also didn’t deny the possibility of Levon Ter-Petrosyan’s nomination in the post of the president and Serge Sargsyan’s nomination in the PM position. In his opinion: “this is a hypothesis but is not bad for the stability of development of the country. If our aim is the stability of the country, NK conflict settlement, the PM should realize that Levon Ter-Petrosyan  will solve the problems of the foreign policy in the best way. There is a need of collaboration, which allows to provide both the economic stability of the country  and political progress.”