“Our political team convened a congress and a meeting of the executive committee after long and heated discussions and made a decision by the majority of votes to participate in the parliamentary election with this list, given our parties’ community of programs and ideologies.” The leaders of The National Unity Party (NUP), the Christian-Democratic Union (CDU), the Constitutional Rights Union (CRU), the United Labor Party (ULP) and Urikhanyan’s progressives explain in this manner their inclusion in the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) and the Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP) lists. In reality, there have been no tense and heated discussions, because basically there are no political teams and program articles; there are personalities – pleasant and not so much. Those personalities have aspirations – healthy and unhealthy. There may also be a group of supporters in their entourage, but the most important “program article” is to become an MP, “grabbing the tail” of a big party. It is an absolutely normal longing and the mentioned “party” leaders will probably be normal MPs. One just doesn’t have to tell myths about the team’s “hard choices” and “ideological community,” isn’t it clear that those decisions are made unilaterally by those who have ambitions to become MPs. By the way, the Rule of Law Party (RLP), which the oppositionists like to “abuse” and sometimes also the pro-government supporters do that, has proved that it is, nonetheless, a separate political team and it participates in the election, not being assimilated in the RPA.
The situation in the Armenian National Congress (ANC) is roughly the same – there aren’t 17 parties there. There are with some reservations three parties – the Pan-Armenian National Movement (PANM), the Republic Party and the People’s Party ofArmenia(PPA), as well as personalities who represent the Liberal Party, the Social Democrat Hunchakian Party (SDHP) and others. All of them are respectable people and it would be very good, if they appeared in the parliament, however why do they need that imitation of unifying the political stage? All the same, no one believes that there are more than a few hundreds of people in the mentioned “parties” combined.
At the end of the day, it would be logical, if the ANC declared itself a party and the condition for that is that this political force puts forward programs (by the way, drawn up very literately and very interesting) regarding all fields and obviously written not in “17 parties,” but in the central office of the ANC.
If those who have been included in the lists of those three parties – RPA, PAP and ANC – gave up their ambitions to be a party leader and appeared as RPA members, PAP members and ANC members, the political stage would be more “cleansed” and optimized. However, it is hard to expect Armenians to give up the Leader’s title even of a fictive organization.
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