“I am under the impression that he fulfills a certain task with at least his two latest interviews. And that task is to support and endorse the Prosperous Armenia Party as much as he can. The rest is just the background,” Karapet Rubinyan, a former member of the Armenian National Congress (ANC) and a former Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly, said during a conversation with www.aravot.am commenting on the latest interview of second President of the Republic of Armenia Robert Kocharyan.
According to our interlocutor, even those remarks of Kocharyan that he is not convinced that the parliamentary system of government is the right one; in the end, his statement implies that the parliamentary system is the right one.
“It is obvious that in order to fulfill this task, Kocharyan just uses these commentaries. You realize yourself that this idea is not honest. If it had been honest, he would have taken all those steps when he was in power, and we haven’t seen any of those steps.”
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As for the fact that the Rule of Law Party (RLP) also joined the closed-door consultations initiated by the PAP, and that Vartan Oskanian stated that there were grounds for cooperation, Karapet Rubinyan notes, “I don’t think that the RLP will give up on its only hope and haven, and will become a member of a not fully formed alliance. Processes of examining and probing the political stage are under way. Nothing is clear yet.”
In response to our question whether all this was not agreed upon, since the RLP would have hardly decided to negotiate with the PAP on its own, Karapet Rubinyan said, “The agreement is a bit like a betrayal. One can say that it has surely gotten an approval to go and see what is going on.”
Nelly GRIGORYAN
