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  • Troika Of Oligarchs Vs. Alternative Oligarch

    TROIKA OF OLIGARCHS VS. ALTERNATIVE OLIGARCH
    JAMES HAKOBYAN

    Story from Lragir.am News:
    http://www.lragir.am/index.php/eng/0/comments/view/28340
    15:40 07/12/2012

    According to the PAP report, Gagik Tsarukyan said during his meetings
    in Brussels that it is impossible to fight against corruption when
    the fighters are the most corrupt people in Armenia.

    This is a true observation but it is incomplete. The leader of
    the force declaring 500,000 votes should put forth a more complete
    strategic vision of fight against the systemic syndrome.

    Gagik Tsarukyan should also name those corrupt officials. For instance,
    is Serzh Sargsyan among them? How about the president of the National
    Assembly Hovik Abrahamyan who is his in-law? Is the prime minister
    corrupt? Which members of government are corrupt? Which members of
    the president's staff or the administration of the National Assembly
    are corrupt?

    Otherwise, even the RPA makes general statements on corruption.

    Meanwhile, the society needs a clear position, namely which official
    is corrupt and who must be fired and held responsible.

    The spokesman for the RPA Eduard Sharmazanov has described this
    statement as a shame. He said they also can say a lot but they
    don't do.

    What does RPA silence? Sharmazanov lists what they can say but they do
    not. They are not important because Tsarukyan's allegation is legal -
    those most corrupt - while Sharmazanov's listing is not legal.

    What of legal nature can the RPA tell the PAP? Can it say it is not
    corrupt, the PAP is corrupt? Or can it sue the PAP leader who accuses
    the government of Armenia of corruption for slander? After all,
    the government led by Serzh Sargsyan fights against corruption. Or
    does Serzh Sargsyan not fight against corruption? He has stated that
    he does.

    Hence, Gagik Tsarukyan slanders Serzh Sargsyan, listing him among
    those corrupt. In this case nothing else is left to the RPA but
    to go to court, as the Republican oligarchs do whenever a newspaper
    publishes "libel". By the way, the party can assign Ruben Hairapetyan,
    Samvel Alexanyan and Levon Sargsyan (Alraghac Lyov) to sue Gagik
    Tsarukyan. This troika had sued the Armenian Time and demanded several
    million drams for slandering them.

    The troika of Republican oligarchs may win the case and boost the RPA
    budget which can be spent on buying pre-election counter-tractors to
    lease to voters, while the PAP returns the tractors it had distributed
    to farmers ahead of the parliamentary election. Or the Republican
    troika will use the legal remedy to make Gagik Tsarukyan clarify what
    he meant when he said those corrupt fight against corruption.

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