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WHY HOVIK ABRAHAMYAN WAS SO AGGRESSIVE
Naira Hayrumyan
15:40 18/12/2012
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/index.php/eng/0/country/view/28447
Hovik Abrahamyan's aggressiveness at yesterday's parliamentary
session perhaps was determined by political reasons. Besides his
wish to defend his former colleague and just a good girl, he had a
political nervous breakdown.
Perhaps it is related to Tsarukyan's story. Hovik Abrahamyan fulfilled
his task and didn't allow confrontation between Tsarukyan and Serzh
Sargsyan. But, perhaps, he didn't fulfill it properly, and after
Tsarukyan's "political boycott", the situation worsened for Serzh
Sargsyan because the election boycott by PAP became possible. The
blame for the possible loss of 500 thousand votes will be on Hovik
Abrahamyan.
There is one more reason for Hovik Abrahamyan's nervousness. Prime
Minister Tigran Sargsyan paid a successful visit to Germany and
the United States, was received by Joe Biden and strengthened his
positions as the premier. In fact, the government is passing to the
technological wing, while the parliament is still conservative and
oligarchic. After this tour, all the talks about Hovik Abrahamyan's
appointment to the office of the Prime Minister can be considered
closed, and now it remains only to retain the seat of the Speaker.
But Serzh Sargsyan's democratic games create obstacles for Abrahamyan.
After the 2012 parliamentary elections, when all the main oppositional
forces entered the parliament, Serzh Sargsyan decided to play
democracy a little and gave the small commission on ethics to the
opposition. It has no legal competences, only the possibility to
discuss and give conclusions. But the fact that Nikol Pashinyan was
appointed chairman of the commission enabled it to discuss a number
of cases of MPs considered a taboo. Now the commission is possible to
consider the issue on the ethicality of the parliamentary majority,
which boycotted the parliamentary session to discuss the project on
the passage to the parliamentary system.
Hovik Abrahamyan and the oligarchic wing of the Republican Party do
not like these games at all. Democracy is acceptable for them only in
the zone which they defend with a high wall. People can scream about
the human rights beyond that wall, the anti-monopoly commission can
fine oligarchs from time to time, but inside the "zone" no one should
challenge the hierarchy.
Nikol Pashinyan and someone from Dashnaktsutyun coveted the holiness
- the parliamentary-thief hierarchy. It caused the fair anger of the
"master". Moreover, a good girl is involved.
Now Serzh Sargsyan should show whether he just plays democracy, or
he wanted certain balancers in the parliament at least in the form
of the commission on ethics, or he retains the parliament a "zone"
of the criminal oligarchy.
Naira Hayrumyan
15:40 18/12/2012
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/index.php/eng/0/country/view/28447
Hovik Abrahamyan's aggressiveness at yesterday's parliamentary
session perhaps was determined by political reasons. Besides his
wish to defend his former colleague and just a good girl, he had a
political nervous breakdown.
Perhaps it is related to Tsarukyan's story. Hovik Abrahamyan fulfilled
his task and didn't allow confrontation between Tsarukyan and Serzh
Sargsyan. But, perhaps, he didn't fulfill it properly, and after
Tsarukyan's "political boycott", the situation worsened for Serzh
Sargsyan because the election boycott by PAP became possible. The
blame for the possible loss of 500 thousand votes will be on Hovik
Abrahamyan.
There is one more reason for Hovik Abrahamyan's nervousness. Prime
Minister Tigran Sargsyan paid a successful visit to Germany and
the United States, was received by Joe Biden and strengthened his
positions as the premier. In fact, the government is passing to the
technological wing, while the parliament is still conservative and
oligarchic. After this tour, all the talks about Hovik Abrahamyan's
appointment to the office of the Prime Minister can be considered
closed, and now it remains only to retain the seat of the Speaker.
But Serzh Sargsyan's democratic games create obstacles for Abrahamyan.
After the 2012 parliamentary elections, when all the main oppositional
forces entered the parliament, Serzh Sargsyan decided to play
democracy a little and gave the small commission on ethics to the
opposition. It has no legal competences, only the possibility to
discuss and give conclusions. But the fact that Nikol Pashinyan was
appointed chairman of the commission enabled it to discuss a number
of cases of MPs considered a taboo. Now the commission is possible to
consider the issue on the ethicality of the parliamentary majority,
which boycotted the parliamentary session to discuss the project on
the passage to the parliamentary system.
Hovik Abrahamyan and the oligarchic wing of the Republican Party do
not like these games at all. Democracy is acceptable for them only in
the zone which they defend with a high wall. People can scream about
the human rights beyond that wall, the anti-monopoly commission can
fine oligarchs from time to time, but inside the "zone" no one should
challenge the hierarchy.
Nikol Pashinyan and someone from Dashnaktsutyun coveted the holiness
- the parliamentary-thief hierarchy. It caused the fair anger of the
"master". Moreover, a good girl is involved.
Now Serzh Sargsyan should show whether he just plays democracy, or
he wanted certain balancers in the parliament at least in the form
of the commission on ethics, or he retains the parliament a "zone"
of the criminal oligarchy.