What makes Robert Kocharyan less than Levon Ter- Petrosyan, and Serzh Sargsyan less than Gagik Tsarukyan?
“I am more and more convinced that I really have a problem with repentance and remission of sins. Therefore, though late, I apologize to you in all sincerity to Robert Kocharyan and Serzh Sargsyan to Armenia and rewinding them around your neck. If I have made mistakes in personnel policy, then, I confess that this was my biggest mistake. Moreover, this is not a mistake rather than a disaster that I have brought over the head of our nation. So, let me, help me to relieve you from this disaster.” This is an excerpt quoted from the RA First President Levon Ter-Petrosyan’s speech made at the rally at Freedom Square on November 16, 2007.
Those considering PAP leader Gagik Tsarukyan’s recent speech at the party congress turning, probably, have other information from “inside” about his political plans, because his speech spiced with good wishes did not seem particularly different from the previous ones. Moreover, this speech was not a half-step ahead in terms of Tsarukyan’s political independence, and getting rid of PAP’s “sponsor” Kocharyan. Consequently, we should not pretend to be naive and think that Ter-Petrosyan continues thinking that Robert Kocharyan is a “political corpse”, especially when during the ANC rally on March 1, Kocharyan’s once “responsibility” theme “slipped” not accidentally. If Ter-Petrosyan wants a second time to repeat his “biggest mistake” or “disaster”, it’s up to him, he has his own political calculations and, probably, has no other plan for Armenia’s “salvation” than replacing the Republican Party with PAP. And, in this matter, he considers Tsarulyan and Kocharyan as the omnipotent resources for the candidate of the government of Armenia.
In general, both the government that does not execute any positive change in the country to mitigate the socio-economic crisis, and the opposition that on the way to registering specific results fails to achieve success are experiencing mixed times. It is in such situations that whatever comes to mind is announced with a serious expression on the face. For instances, Vardan Oskanyan, working as a Minister of Foreign Affairs during Robert Kocharyan’s ten years of tenure, and now a PAP MP, can talk about such matter that “each authority, whose ultimate goal is not to maintain the power at any cost, should assess these speeches and suggested directions positive…” This is the case when the “power” was the most successfully “maintained” in the years of Kocharyan and Oskanyan in power during several national elections, including in 2008, at the cost of March 1. However, now, the same Oskanyan is stating that Ter-Petrosyan is continuing the estimates of Tsarukyan’s last speech… And another ANC member fixes, “Yes, Tsarukyan, having financial capacity actually is able to lead the bourgeois-democratic revolution, he can carry out a revolution…” And so forth…
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Reproducing the meaning of Gagik Tsarukyan’s “admonitions” in the last PAP congress, Ter-Petrosyan said, “I will immediately reverse inevitable responses of skepticism. What makes Tsarukyan less than Ivanishvili (who managed, thanks also to Saakashvili’s discretion, carry out a change of power smoothly), or Rinat Akhmetov and Sergei Tigipko (who did not allow Yanukovych to declare a state of emergency in Kiev).” Within a few days, various publications appeared in the media; opinions are heard while drawing parallels about the ways of earning money by Ivanishvili-Tsarukyan businesses. The fact that Ter-Petrosyan made these parallels, of course, was not unexpected. Since the fall of 2011, nothing has been changed in terms of the ANC tactics. Surprisingly, when this or that politician was criticizing Ter-Petrosyan, ANC members were raising a question of “How many books they have read to make Ter-Petrosyan’s truthfulness wrong…”
No need now to raise a question of how many books, for example, Tsarukyan and Kocharyan have read together, especially when the latter seems “does not remember” the titles of the books he had read once. Anyway, one record, however, must be done. It is sad that today the hope of really powerful and capable nationwide movement formed in 2008 is Tsarukyan and Kocharyan. And, if we stem out from drawing parallels between Ivanishvili and Tsarukyan and the “formula” thrown to the public, it should first be noted that there is indeed no resemblance between Ivanishvili and Tsarukyan in terms of politics, so as just between Kocharyan and Levon Ter-Petrosyan. Following by the same logic, hence, let’s ask what makes Robert Kocharyan less than Levon Ter-Petrosyan, and Serzh Sargsyan less than Gagik Tsarukyan…?
Emma GABRIELYAN
