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KOCHARYAN ADMITTED HE HAD NO POWER IN ARMENIA
Naira Hayrumyan
http://www.lragir.am/index.php/eng/0/country/view/28063
Country - Thursday, 15 November 2012, 11:16
In his latest statement, Robert Kocharyan confessed for the first time
that he didn't possess the whole political power in Armenia during
his tenure. Moreover, he accepted that someone else was the "power".
Saying that he failed to ensure the passage to the proportional voting
system, Kocharyan noted that the "power" was interested in the keeping
of the majoritarian districts. Whom he means by saying power? Serzh
Sargsyan, who headed the Republican Party, the oligarchs, who laid
their hands on everything in the country, Russian agents, to whom he
was powerless to resist? This couldn't be just a slip of the tongue,
Robert Kocharyan really admitted that there was a different "power"
during his tenure.
It was always assumed that as a politician, Kocharyan is stronger than
Serzh Sargsyan, who is perceived as a softer and more flexible person.
And Kocharyan, on the contrary, had a reputation of a tough,
calculating man, who would never be stopped by anything on the way
of achieving his goal. But, apparently, it is not so, and Sargsyan's
"soft power" turned out stronger that Kocharyan's stiffness.
At the end, Serzh Sargsyan came to Armenia earlier than Kocharyan.
Before Kocharyan's arrival in Armenia in 1996, Sargsyan had already
headed force structures in Armenia and was aware of the conjuncture
in Armenia. He was Kocharyan's rear then.
Later, when Kocharyan became president, Serzh Sargsyan became the
"second figure". But he was considered the "gray eminence" for some
reason, and apparently, he headed the country and Kocharyan means
him referring to the "power".
All these presumptions are on the psychological plain, but this is
the plain to define the political developments. "Soft" Serzh Sargsyan
is psychologically stronger than Robert Kocharyan, but Kocharyan is
stronger by the ability to make unexpected steps which can ensure
good positions for him.
Now, in Armenia, a political fight between two psychological types
is underway, between the soft and the tough. Who will be the power
this time?
Naira Hayrumyan
http://www.lragir.am/index.php/eng/0/country/view/28063
Country - Thursday, 15 November 2012, 11:16
In his latest statement, Robert Kocharyan confessed for the first time
that he didn't possess the whole political power in Armenia during
his tenure. Moreover, he accepted that someone else was the "power".
Saying that he failed to ensure the passage to the proportional voting
system, Kocharyan noted that the "power" was interested in the keeping
of the majoritarian districts. Whom he means by saying power? Serzh
Sargsyan, who headed the Republican Party, the oligarchs, who laid
their hands on everything in the country, Russian agents, to whom he
was powerless to resist? This couldn't be just a slip of the tongue,
Robert Kocharyan really admitted that there was a different "power"
during his tenure.
It was always assumed that as a politician, Kocharyan is stronger than
Serzh Sargsyan, who is perceived as a softer and more flexible person.
And Kocharyan, on the contrary, had a reputation of a tough,
calculating man, who would never be stopped by anything on the way
of achieving his goal. But, apparently, it is not so, and Sargsyan's
"soft power" turned out stronger that Kocharyan's stiffness.
At the end, Serzh Sargsyan came to Armenia earlier than Kocharyan.
Before Kocharyan's arrival in Armenia in 1996, Sargsyan had already
headed force structures in Armenia and was aware of the conjuncture
in Armenia. He was Kocharyan's rear then.
Later, when Kocharyan became president, Serzh Sargsyan became the
"second figure". But he was considered the "gray eminence" for some
reason, and apparently, he headed the country and Kocharyan means
him referring to the "power".
All these presumptions are on the psychological plain, but this is
the plain to define the political developments. "Soft" Serzh Sargsyan
is psychologically stronger than Robert Kocharyan, but Kocharyan is
stronger by the ability to make unexpected steps which can ensure
good positions for him.
Now, in Armenia, a political fight between two psychological types
is underway, between the soft and the tough. Who will be the power
this time?