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WHAT HAS BEEN PROMISED TO RAFFI?
Naira Hayrumyan
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/country27648.html
Published: 18:11:33 - 08/10/2012
Interesting perturbations are noticed in the Armenian parliament.
Elections will be held in districts 1 and 35. Raffi Hovannisian has
resigned and been replaced by non-partisan Tevan Poghosyan. Prosperous
Armenia may further boycott the sessions of the parliament.
In the Armenian parliament which has been laid out with a jeweler's
precision every change may affect its layout. Initially there was
a feeling that the bloc of the Heritage and Free Democrats got at
least one vote fewer because the press immediately set to report that
Tevan Poghosyan running the six on the ticket was to be elected to
parliament. Moreover, it was stated that now someone will have to
cede his place to him, and eventually Raffi Hovannisian did.
Judging by Hovannisian's mood, he considered himself deceived. First,
only 3 members of the Heritage were elected to parliament because it
ran for parliament in a bloc with the Free Democrats. Second, he will
have to leave the parliament for a motivation which is not convincing.
Raffi Hovannisian has already left the parliament. Tevan Poghosyan
is already a member of parliament but now the leader of the Heritage
Party wants to have Stepan Safaryan of Heritage win the election in
district 1. Besides, Hovannisian wants Khachatur Kokobelyan, president
of the Free Democrats, to resign to have another member of Heritage
Party enter the parliament.
It is not clear whether an agreement has been violated. But if
initially there was an agreement, Stepan Safaryan may be "allowed"
to win in district 1. It will only cut the presence of the RPA in
parliament but perhaps it had been initially agreed because the RPA
group is large enough to pass any resolution.
There is a big but though. The press already writes that Prosperous
Armenia which boycotts the sessions of parliament for Vartan Oskanian's
case may not return to parliament. This option seems likely because
before every voting PA appears lost and does not know what to do. The
leader of the party Gagik Tsarukyan is in the underground.
The party may go on to make an abrupt decision and lay down the
mandates or freeze their presence in parliament. In this case the
layout of the parliament may change.
Naira Hayrumyan
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/country27648.html
Published: 18:11:33 - 08/10/2012
Interesting perturbations are noticed in the Armenian parliament.
Elections will be held in districts 1 and 35. Raffi Hovannisian has
resigned and been replaced by non-partisan Tevan Poghosyan. Prosperous
Armenia may further boycott the sessions of the parliament.
In the Armenian parliament which has been laid out with a jeweler's
precision every change may affect its layout. Initially there was
a feeling that the bloc of the Heritage and Free Democrats got at
least one vote fewer because the press immediately set to report that
Tevan Poghosyan running the six on the ticket was to be elected to
parliament. Moreover, it was stated that now someone will have to
cede his place to him, and eventually Raffi Hovannisian did.
Judging by Hovannisian's mood, he considered himself deceived. First,
only 3 members of the Heritage were elected to parliament because it
ran for parliament in a bloc with the Free Democrats. Second, he will
have to leave the parliament for a motivation which is not convincing.
Raffi Hovannisian has already left the parliament. Tevan Poghosyan
is already a member of parliament but now the leader of the Heritage
Party wants to have Stepan Safaryan of Heritage win the election in
district 1. Besides, Hovannisian wants Khachatur Kokobelyan, president
of the Free Democrats, to resign to have another member of Heritage
Party enter the parliament.
It is not clear whether an agreement has been violated. But if
initially there was an agreement, Stepan Safaryan may be "allowed"
to win in district 1. It will only cut the presence of the RPA in
parliament but perhaps it had been initially agreed because the RPA
group is large enough to pass any resolution.
There is a big but though. The press already writes that Prosperous
Armenia which boycotts the sessions of parliament for Vartan Oskanian's
case may not return to parliament. This option seems likely because
before every voting PA appears lost and does not know what to do. The
leader of the party Gagik Tsarukyan is in the underground.
The party may go on to make an abrupt decision and lay down the
mandates or freeze their presence in parliament. In this case the
layout of the parliament may change.