Being engaged in politics in Armenia is not something complicated. You either join the ruling power with its relevant feeding trough but you will take on the hard and unpleasant duty of presenting that matzoon (a yogurt-type product) is black (two good things never happen in one place). Or, you must compete with many other groups about how radical you rhetoric will be. For example, if you call on that the regime will be changed in 5 minutes, you’re more radical than the one who will call for regime change in 7 minutes. If you’re calling the government authorities “thieves and robbers”, you’re not so radical than the force which says, “thief, robber and traitor.” If a swearing or a curse is added to it, that’s the end, you suffer the most with “these people’s pain and sorrow”, and take out many thorns out of their hands.
There is also one segment in this rich variegated political spectrum, which is similarly necessary to our state and which conventionally may be called “non-governmental” forces. In other words, its representatives are allowed to keep businesses and distribute election bribes during the elections but it is not allowed to use basic vocabulary. Such forces sometimes form a coalition with the government, and sometimes fall into “radicals” waters and in this case, the government has to return them to the “right waters”.
Ara Abrahamyan’s “short friendly visit” should be viewed in this context. It is not clear why the Russian businessman was sent from Moscow to Armenia – to “open a political party”. It is not so much clear why Ara Abrahamyan has decided to “obtain” just the RoL party, maybe Patrushev hints. But it is clear that the Parliament will need a “non-governmental” force void of radical rhetoric, which will have a solid presence in the National Assembly. Certainly, there is also a need for a small group of “bawler” who would use the above-described radical vocabulary.
There will be no lack of “bawler” as the choice here is broad. The issue of “solid non-government” is more complicated as it requires a huge amount of money. Here, the options are fewer: again PAP (if there are resources). ANC (for the same reason), “reorganized RoL” (if Ara Abrahamian does not receive other instructions from the Kremlin), “Consolidation” (if Robert Kocharyan seriously enters into the fight).
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Thus, the future Parliament will have three types of political parties: a/ government, b/ non-government, c/ bawlers. Certainly, it would not hurt of one of them would be an opposition.
ARAM ABRAHAMYAN
