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HAYRAPETYAN WILL ASK TSARUKYAN
HAKOB BADALYAN
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/comments26838.html
Published: 10:31:32 - 13/07/2012
Naira Zohrabyan, PAP, stated that the party will not support
the motion of the Congress to call an emergency session on recent
developments of Harsnakar. Though the Congress says it has discussed
this initiative with the PAP, Zohrabyan says they let the Congress
know it is impossible to collect 44 signatures.
The PAP has 37 members of parliament, the Congress, ARF and Heritage
altogether have 17. If at least 27 MPs of PAP sign, it is impossible
to gather 44 signatures and convene an extraordinary session. Naira
Zohrabyan says the greater part of the PAP MPs are abroad, those who
are in the country, may decide what they want to do.
This is not surprising. The surprising thing is that the Congress
coordinator Levon Zurabyan presents as if the PAP joins or has already
joined the initiative. Meanwhile, it is evident that the PAP is trying
to avoid these initiatives bringing technical excuses. It should not
be excluded that the PAP MPs have been instructed to go on leave to
provide technical excuses to the party not to join the initiative.
The problem is that the PAP leader Gagik Tsarukyan is an oligarch
like Harsnakar's owner Ruben Hayrapetyan. Oligarchs may fight for
the business, power and money but never for the interests of the
society or the state because they have been acting together against
this interest for years.
They have been following the same methodology and the incident of
Harsnakar is not the first case. Moreover, the society is aware of
only part of similar incidents perpetrated by the oligarchic system.
Just a few years ago, the media were less developed than now.
But the internal oligarchic information channels have always worked
well and they know much more about each other than the society does.
In this case, it would be naïve to imagine that any oligarch may
take a systemic step against another oligarch. They are in the
same system, and Ruben Hayrapetyan may make revelations about Gagik
Tsarukyan's past, causing a lot of trouble for the latter even if
the respectable spokesman for the Congress Arman Musinyan interferes
because Hayrapetyan will hardly believe Musinyan who says Tsarukyan
is not an oligarch.
Therefore, it is quite normal that the Prosperous Armenia avoids the
motion for an emergency meeting of parliament and an ad-hoc committee.
It is possible that the Congress either does not need this at all
but the society's claim is clear. We demand an extraordinary session.
Meanwhile, the Congress does not have a grounded explanation to
refuse such a claim because they had already promised big deeds in
the parliament.
In this sense, the PAP supports not only Ruben Hayrapetyan but also
the Congress because the ANC brings a motion, while the PAP will be
responsible for failure.
Sure, many people may wonder how the Congress may rely on the PAP
as opposition. But the explanation has been given by the head of
the parliamentary group of the party: "There are different grades of
opposition. There is radical opposition, moderate opposition, but if
you are not part of the government, you are opposition. I don't think
we should turn the voting into a litmus test. This is an ineffective
and aimless approach."
There is no need to add anything here.
HAKOB BADALYAN
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/comments26838.html
Published: 10:31:32 - 13/07/2012
Naira Zohrabyan, PAP, stated that the party will not support
the motion of the Congress to call an emergency session on recent
developments of Harsnakar. Though the Congress says it has discussed
this initiative with the PAP, Zohrabyan says they let the Congress
know it is impossible to collect 44 signatures.
The PAP has 37 members of parliament, the Congress, ARF and Heritage
altogether have 17. If at least 27 MPs of PAP sign, it is impossible
to gather 44 signatures and convene an extraordinary session. Naira
Zohrabyan says the greater part of the PAP MPs are abroad, those who
are in the country, may decide what they want to do.
This is not surprising. The surprising thing is that the Congress
coordinator Levon Zurabyan presents as if the PAP joins or has already
joined the initiative. Meanwhile, it is evident that the PAP is trying
to avoid these initiatives bringing technical excuses. It should not
be excluded that the PAP MPs have been instructed to go on leave to
provide technical excuses to the party not to join the initiative.
The problem is that the PAP leader Gagik Tsarukyan is an oligarch
like Harsnakar's owner Ruben Hayrapetyan. Oligarchs may fight for
the business, power and money but never for the interests of the
society or the state because they have been acting together against
this interest for years.
They have been following the same methodology and the incident of
Harsnakar is not the first case. Moreover, the society is aware of
only part of similar incidents perpetrated by the oligarchic system.
Just a few years ago, the media were less developed than now.
But the internal oligarchic information channels have always worked
well and they know much more about each other than the society does.
In this case, it would be naïve to imagine that any oligarch may
take a systemic step against another oligarch. They are in the
same system, and Ruben Hayrapetyan may make revelations about Gagik
Tsarukyan's past, causing a lot of trouble for the latter even if
the respectable spokesman for the Congress Arman Musinyan interferes
because Hayrapetyan will hardly believe Musinyan who says Tsarukyan
is not an oligarch.
Therefore, it is quite normal that the Prosperous Armenia avoids the
motion for an emergency meeting of parliament and an ad-hoc committee.
It is possible that the Congress either does not need this at all
but the society's claim is clear. We demand an extraordinary session.
Meanwhile, the Congress does not have a grounded explanation to
refuse such a claim because they had already promised big deeds in
the parliament.
In this sense, the PAP supports not only Ruben Hayrapetyan but also
the Congress because the ANC brings a motion, while the PAP will be
responsible for failure.
Sure, many people may wonder how the Congress may rely on the PAP
as opposition. But the explanation has been given by the head of
the parliamentary group of the party: "There are different grades of
opposition. There is radical opposition, moderate opposition, but if
you are not part of the government, you are opposition. I don't think
we should turn the voting into a litmus test. This is an ineffective
and aimless approach."
There is no need to add anything here.