There are no objective standards and mechanisms, which are used to estimate the work of previous government or the prime minister. Political parties have their own interests, and, naturally, their estimations are far from being objective. The opposition usually says that the Prime Minister has failed everything, whereas the authorities are saying that the government change is a normal process, and that this prime minister was necessary for this phase, whereas for the current phase – a totally different one.
Of course, it’s hard to argue that this government has recorded some notable successes over six years. Much has been said about the failures in the economic sector and still will be discussed. But, one of the reasons for political failures, it seems to me, was the sense of the lack of the team. In the initial stage of his office as Prime Minister, Tigran Sargsyan was non-partisan, later he became a Republican. But the influential people in RPA were not considering him their man; there was a significant discrepancy in mentality. When neutral, but concerned people were talking about deterioration of the economic situation, some RPAs with intellectual and educational background (not publicly, of course) were saying, “Well, what can I do, let Tiko fail, he is not one of our brotherhood.”
When the oligarchs, MPs, senior officials were having problems, do you think they were referring to the prime minister. Of course, not. Consequently, the prime minister was not a reputation for them, he was not the one to “resolving the issue”. I’m sure that they were not going to the sauna with Tigran Sargsyan and were not spending time in “Dubai”. In short, they were not making friends, subconsciously feeling as “class enemy”. Of course, I am also reluctant to idealize Tigran Sargsyan and I assume that he has committed the abuses “that were coming at hand”. The matter here is about the sense of “unified team”.
And, here, I think that maybe the reason for the Prime Minister’s resignation was not the protracted struggle of “non-governments” against him, not the failure of “I am against” initiative and the funded pension, not the Kremlin’s instruction (I do not know how much the Kremlin cares about who works in the post of prime minister in Armenia), rather than simply Tigran Sargsyan’s comprehension that nobody supports him but the President. And, lately the President does not support him as much as the Prime Minister would like.
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This “team” factor, perhaps, should be taken into account in the case of appointing future prime ministers. Although, I would not like Armenia’s prime minister be in harmony with Manvel, Seyran, or Tokhmakh Mher.
ARAM ABRAHAMYAN
