“We have already said that we are against Armenia’s accession to the Eurasian Economic Union, we are against the monopoly of economy in Armenia, about which no word is uttered from the platform, and it is natural. And after all to say that someone is against the opposition in Armenia, then, in this case, the second question should be voiced of what makes the opposition an opposition, and based on what,” said Anush Sedrakyan, the Deputy Head of Free Democrats political party, referring to the ANC leader Levon Ter-Petrosyan’s observations about the political forces appeared in the margin.
Note at the last rally of the parliamentary trio, the first president gad said that the marginals criticizing the activities of the trio have become Serzh Sargsyan’s the most devoted allies, because if the formula being one of the key elements of the political alphabet is true that “my enemy’s enemy is my friend”, then likewise is true that “the opposition’s opposition is the government’s friend”. When interpreting otherwise, the rules of the logic will be betrayed. “Again, the eloquent expression of the first president, the matter is not about the opposition being an opposition. We have been so used that the opposition is the integrity of personalities and behaviors that we forget that the opposition is the expression of ideas and programs.
Levon Ter-Petrosyan illustrates literature citations, which do not withstand criticism from prospective of political sciences. Because marginal cab be considered the forces that express radical ideology or an ideology that is against the civilization trends. Whereas Levon Ter-Petrosyan referred to the very forces that express very common and civilization-oriented sentiments, whose fundamental denominator is the preservation of human rights and the values, as well as and the incompatibility of these values with the Russian Empire. I would not use this terminology just for political sciences. When we talk about the PR tricks for keeping the rally, it is up to the rally-doers,” answered Ms. Sedrakyan to the observations of the first president. Later on, she said that today’s opposition repeats the government program. “The face of the opposition needs to be changed, because the opposition should not repeat the government program. While, currently, the opposition step by step repeats the government program. It is enough to look at overlapping statements of loyalty of the Eurasian Economic Union; it is obvious that these people are operating on the same principle, with the same approach and the same ideological motivations, if are any. Yes, there should be a true opposition, because the government is arguing in the event of the existence of alternative opposition forces, but the opposition program is unchanged, therefore, the opposition problem is put so acute.”
Note that the previous day, over the “Kentron” TV channel, the ANC faction leader Levon Zurabyan was thoroughly grounding that the true opposition is the opposition, which never deviates from its main and only target of criticism: the government. “The opposition, which finds time, a second, to be deviated from its target and stoning other the opposition, so to speak, its opponents, is no more an opposition.” To our question of whether there are controversies inside the ANC about other opposition forces, if we consider Zurabyan’s statement and Levon Ter-Petrosyan’s acute criticism, Ms. Sedrakyan said, “Everyone has the right to express its opinion. Time, history and historical developments will check the controversies of this opinion. Absolutely, there is no sense for the clear ideology possessing opposition discusses tactical and strategic controversies of another force.”
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Referring to the first president’s statement that they are engaged in a serious task, Ms. Sedrakyan continued that the effects of any serious task are seen not on the stage. And as for the ANC’s assertions about PAP leader Gagik Tsarukyan’s acting against the government, Deputy Head of “Free Democrats” political party added, “The program to act against the government is not a program to participate in the rallies, but each one is free to choose its tactics.”
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