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HAKOB BADALYAN
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/comments26289.html
Published: 17:35:57 - 22/05/2012
The U.S. ambassador John Heffern met with the leader of the Heritage
Party Raffi Hovannisian and discussed the past election and the
post-election situation.
Most people certainly understood this event in the context of the
assumption that the Heritage is an "American project" and assumed,
for instance, that the ambassador wanted to comfort their "project".
In reality, such primitive judgments are typical of the greater part of
the public and political environment of Armenia because it is easier
for the environment to imagine the world through such "projects" and
get the answers to all the questions at once and sneer at the smaller
number of people who ingenuously rack their brains to seek for and
find deeper and more serious answers to these questions and answers.
Hence, very few people wonder why Ambassador Heffern visited the leader
of the Heritage Party, whether the ambassador further plans to visit
the leader of the Armenian National Congress, for instance. Or whether
the ambassador thinks like Aram Zaven Sargsyan that only pro-Russian
forces are left in the Congress, and it is meaningless to discuss
the post-election situation with them.
However, it is possible that the visit of the ambassador has nothing
to do with the Russian or Western sentiment of this party. The problem
is other, which took John Heffern to Raffi Hovannisian first.
The point is that the Armenian National Congress seems to have closed
the chapter of mandates and announced on May 8 they will enter
parliament. Meanwhile, the Heritage has not published an official
decision yet. The representative of the Free Democrats Alik Arzumanyan
announced that they will accept the mandate but the official position
of the Heritage Party is not known yet.
It might be at this point that the U.S. ambassador sees some
unpredictability so he is interested in this party because the other
parties have stated clearly what they will be doing.
John Heffern wonders what Raffi Hovannisian will eventually do. Will
he accept his seat or the seats of the Heritage Party or not?
Since recently Raffi Hovannisian has distinguished himself by
unpredictable decisions, presumably his decision may be something
between entering and resigning from parliament.
Hovannisian may decide to enter the parliament but instead of
attending the meetings of parliament he may go to the Freedom Square,
for instance, since he thinks that the votes of the society were left
out, and the legitimate parliamentary seats are at the Freedom Square,
not in the parliament.
There Raffi Hovannisian can hold so-called alternative meetings of
parliament, form a people's parliament, presidency, committees and
parliamentary groups.
Of course, this is one of the possible options because the Heritage
leader may think of a lot of other options, both with and without
the parliamentary seats. The question will be the reason why Raffi
will opt for that particular decision. It is only clear that it is
necessary to leave the mountains and take to people.
From: A. Papazian
HAKOB BADALYAN
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/comments26289.html
Published: 17:35:57 - 22/05/2012
The U.S. ambassador John Heffern met with the leader of the Heritage
Party Raffi Hovannisian and discussed the past election and the
post-election situation.
Most people certainly understood this event in the context of the
assumption that the Heritage is an "American project" and assumed,
for instance, that the ambassador wanted to comfort their "project".
In reality, such primitive judgments are typical of the greater part of
the public and political environment of Armenia because it is easier
for the environment to imagine the world through such "projects" and
get the answers to all the questions at once and sneer at the smaller
number of people who ingenuously rack their brains to seek for and
find deeper and more serious answers to these questions and answers.
Hence, very few people wonder why Ambassador Heffern visited the leader
of the Heritage Party, whether the ambassador further plans to visit
the leader of the Armenian National Congress, for instance. Or whether
the ambassador thinks like Aram Zaven Sargsyan that only pro-Russian
forces are left in the Congress, and it is meaningless to discuss
the post-election situation with them.
However, it is possible that the visit of the ambassador has nothing
to do with the Russian or Western sentiment of this party. The problem
is other, which took John Heffern to Raffi Hovannisian first.
The point is that the Armenian National Congress seems to have closed
the chapter of mandates and announced on May 8 they will enter
parliament. Meanwhile, the Heritage has not published an official
decision yet. The representative of the Free Democrats Alik Arzumanyan
announced that they will accept the mandate but the official position
of the Heritage Party is not known yet.
It might be at this point that the U.S. ambassador sees some
unpredictability so he is interested in this party because the other
parties have stated clearly what they will be doing.
John Heffern wonders what Raffi Hovannisian will eventually do. Will
he accept his seat or the seats of the Heritage Party or not?
Since recently Raffi Hovannisian has distinguished himself by
unpredictable decisions, presumably his decision may be something
between entering and resigning from parliament.
Hovannisian may decide to enter the parliament but instead of
attending the meetings of parliament he may go to the Freedom Square,
for instance, since he thinks that the votes of the society were left
out, and the legitimate parliamentary seats are at the Freedom Square,
not in the parliament.
There Raffi Hovannisian can hold so-called alternative meetings of
parliament, form a people's parliament, presidency, committees and
parliamentary groups.
Of course, this is one of the possible options because the Heritage
leader may think of a lot of other options, both with and without
the parliamentary seats. The question will be the reason why Raffi
will opt for that particular decision. It is only clear that it is
necessary to leave the mountains and take to people.
From: A. Papazian