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VARTAN OSKANIAN'S THIRD ATTEMPT
HAKOB BADALYAN
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/comments26195.html
Published: 11:37:49 - 15/05/2012
By its effort to bring the PAP to coalition, the Republican Party is
addressing not only internal governmental and home political strategic
issues but also harms Vartan Oskanian, the former foreign minister,
PAP member, second on the party list.
After joining PAP, Vartan Oskanian started criticizing Serzh Sargsyan
and the home and foreign policies of the Republican Party to which
the RPA members even responded with personal offenses.
Now the political situation is as follows: by "bending" the PAP,
the Republicans not only address political issues but also put Vartan
Oskanian in an uncomfortable situation. Although this is just a minor
issue which the RPA is solving by just seizing the convenient occasion.
Actually, Vartan Oskanian's second attempt for domestic political
progress fails, bringing about a mere situational solution.
Vartan Oskanian's first attempt was before the parliamentary
elections 2007. Then foreign minister, he made several substantiated
assessments of and speeches on the domestic affairs. But they ended
as spontaneously as they had started, and Vartan Oskanian remained
within the foreign policy. Several years later, on 3 May 2012, Robert
Kocharyan was to state that Oskanian wanted to become a PAP member
later in 2007 but he urged him not to do so.
The reason is known only to Kocharyan and Oskanian, and perhaps also
to Serzh Sargsyan who ensured absolute victory for the RPA on 12 May
2007 while the Prosperous Armenia which had declared 400,000 members
received only 200 thousand votes.
The first attempt for the PAP project failed. Vartan Oskanian benefited
though, who saved his political resource which would be exhausted
immediately after the first loss of the PA.
It is difficult to tell whether Robert Kocharyan did not believe
the PA success so he decided to save Oskanian or Serzh Sargsyan saw
a competitor in Vartan Oskanian for the 2008 presidential elections
so he resisted his decision to join the PA and destroyed PA in the
presidential elections.
The second try was in 2012, and it may be prevented this time too in
case the PA forms a coalition with the RPA.
Will Vartan Oskanian make the third attempt?
The situation is a matter of honor for the former foreign minister.
After the election of 2012, Vartan Oskanian set for himself such a
bar that leaving politics would not be natural and logical.
For his third attempt, Vartan Oskanian will either need to take the
wheel of the party to transform it to a completely different party
or simply leave the PA.
Once Prosperous Armenia forms a coalition, the party will become one
of the task forces of the RPA. In this case, it is a question whether
it makes any sense to fight for a task force which will be managed
by the RPA.
In this case, it would be more useful for Vartan Oskanian to
think about leaving PA since no matter how hard he tries to avoid
responsibility for the sunken ship, he will not be able to avoid the
aftermath of the shipwreck.
HAKOB BADALYAN
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/comments26195.html
Published: 11:37:49 - 15/05/2012
By its effort to bring the PAP to coalition, the Republican Party is
addressing not only internal governmental and home political strategic
issues but also harms Vartan Oskanian, the former foreign minister,
PAP member, second on the party list.
After joining PAP, Vartan Oskanian started criticizing Serzh Sargsyan
and the home and foreign policies of the Republican Party to which
the RPA members even responded with personal offenses.
Now the political situation is as follows: by "bending" the PAP,
the Republicans not only address political issues but also put Vartan
Oskanian in an uncomfortable situation. Although this is just a minor
issue which the RPA is solving by just seizing the convenient occasion.
Actually, Vartan Oskanian's second attempt for domestic political
progress fails, bringing about a mere situational solution.
Vartan Oskanian's first attempt was before the parliamentary
elections 2007. Then foreign minister, he made several substantiated
assessments of and speeches on the domestic affairs. But they ended
as spontaneously as they had started, and Vartan Oskanian remained
within the foreign policy. Several years later, on 3 May 2012, Robert
Kocharyan was to state that Oskanian wanted to become a PAP member
later in 2007 but he urged him not to do so.
The reason is known only to Kocharyan and Oskanian, and perhaps also
to Serzh Sargsyan who ensured absolute victory for the RPA on 12 May
2007 while the Prosperous Armenia which had declared 400,000 members
received only 200 thousand votes.
The first attempt for the PAP project failed. Vartan Oskanian benefited
though, who saved his political resource which would be exhausted
immediately after the first loss of the PA.
It is difficult to tell whether Robert Kocharyan did not believe
the PA success so he decided to save Oskanian or Serzh Sargsyan saw
a competitor in Vartan Oskanian for the 2008 presidential elections
so he resisted his decision to join the PA and destroyed PA in the
presidential elections.
The second try was in 2012, and it may be prevented this time too in
case the PA forms a coalition with the RPA.
Will Vartan Oskanian make the third attempt?
The situation is a matter of honor for the former foreign minister.
After the election of 2012, Vartan Oskanian set for himself such a
bar that leaving politics would not be natural and logical.
For his third attempt, Vartan Oskanian will either need to take the
wheel of the party to transform it to a completely different party
or simply leave the PA.
Once Prosperous Armenia forms a coalition, the party will become one
of the task forces of the RPA. In this case, it is a question whether
it makes any sense to fight for a task force which will be managed
by the RPA.
In this case, it would be more useful for Vartan Oskanian to
think about leaving PA since no matter how hard he tries to avoid
responsibility for the sunken ship, he will not be able to avoid the
aftermath of the shipwreck.