What will the neutrality of “non-governmental” forces to Hovik Abrahamyan prove?
The decision of nominating Hovik Abrahamyan’s candidacy in the position of the prime minister of Armenia, of course, was expected in the sense that it was clear from the beginning that Serzh Sargsyan has a problem with choosing a candidate who will be “acceptable” to “non-governmental forces” and PAP, in particular.
The fact that there is a problem with integrity within the ruling Republican Party and inside the government, in general, even Serzh Sargsyan hinted on it, when presenting Hovik Abrahamyan on Sunday, said the following, “Over the last days, we had a long conversation with Mr. Abrahamyan on our present and future objectives. I honestly presented all the skeptical opinions existing even among our teammates related to inter-team integrity, as well as to our relations with other political forces and possible perceptions of different social layers. We have talked about all the issues honestly and openly, and I have received Mr. Abrahamyan’s clear assurances. Mr. Abrahamyan promised to take decisive steps and to make clear political statements in order to deal with all our concerns, to initiate raising the team spirit and uniting everybody in working, and more importantly, to achieve tangible results.” PAP, as it is seen, will not constitute a part of the government, it does not have an issue of entering the coalition on the agenda, though the members of this party are already making moves towards inclination to the government, for example, one of the PAP MPs has submitted the Speaker of the National Assembly an application of dismissal from PAP faction. Apparently, the PAP is experiencing a risk with regard to frequency of similar “actions”, which is why the PAP faction secretary announced that the PAP members who will be involved in the government, “from the time onward these same people will no longer be PAP members, they will be dismissed from the party.”
PAP’s decision to constitute a part of the government, from the prospect of tactics, is quite understandable “game”. Why to share the responsibility with the government, if they can stay aside, raise the issues of the people and the country and refrain from assuming responsibility for solving these problems. However, here another question arises whether in the event of displaying of neutrality towards Hovik Abrahamyan’s leadership, PAP or ANC, and not only they, do not participate in generally existence and preservation of current political system, which is led by Serzh Sargsyan, the ruling Republican Party and newly formed government, which will bear responsibility in the near future.
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The ANC spread out statement reads, “We do not deny the prime minister’s or any minister’s person or their submitted program, we deny the right of the rigged majority of Republicans to form a government in Armenia. Therefore, we do believe that the main task of four non-coalition opposition forces should be removal of Serzh Sargsyan’s regime”. Why was it possible to demand the resignation of the government led by Tigran Sargsyan and not Hovik Abrahamyan’s? Maybe PAP and ANC have different expectations from Hovik Abrahamyan… The point that they would have certain expectations, for example, it became clear on April 8, during the TV program “P.S.” over the “A1+” channel. ANC faction member Lyudmila Sargsyan was talking about Serzh Sargsyan’s forming a national consensus government, Hovik Abrahamyan’s appointment as Prime Minister and the reasons why Serzh Sargsyan would like to behave like that, and when the author of the program, Aram Abrahamyan, reminded that a short time after the 1996 elections, Levon Ter-Petrosyan appointed Robert Kocharyan as Prime Minister to extend his power, but Kocharyan came and “dug underneath Levon Ter-Petrosyan” and became the country’s president, Lyudmila Sargsyan gave a vivid response, “I understand your hint. Good Lord to hear your voice.” In other words, now, the ANC should wait for Hovik Abrahamyan to “dismantle” Serzh Sargsyan’s government from inside and carry out a “bourgeois democratic revolution”…?
If it is so, then, as the change of power on February 1998 was considering Robert Kocharyan’s coming to power a “palace coup”, so as today’s “non-government” forces, in their political fight, are considering the most feasible option of their goal on the way to achieving Serzh Sargsyan’s resignation, possible, in fact, approximately with the “solution” as in 1998, in active participation of the newly appointed prime minister.
Emma GABRIELYAN
