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THE SAD END OF COALITIONS
http://www.aravot.am/en/2012/10/11/119002/
October 11, 2012 13:16
Coalitions in our country have always had a sad fate. For example,
the two sides of the four-sided coalition formed after the 2008
presidential election are actually in the opposition today and bash
the government's drawbacks so severely (often legitimately) that one
can conclude that they have never been a part of the government. The
majority of the pro-government coalition Republic, including
the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA), formed in the 1990s became
Yerkrapah overnight standing by the government. The Republic Coalition
was basically destroyed after the events of October 27. Different
members of the opposition coalition Justice are in different places
today. Etcetera. The reason is that members of these coalitions have
not only ideological, but also tactical similarities. The meaning
of all them is the following - there is a force that has chances of
governing or appearing in the parliament, this force has aspirations to
create an illusion of some "consolidation" around it and for the sake
of its ambitions, it drags a few other figures, which usually appear
in the status of "poor relatives." They get bored with that rather
humiliating role sooner or later and at their earliest convenience,
those "attached" figures abandon the consolidator.
The Heritage Party, which made an obvious mistake before the latest
parliamentary election including the Free Democrats and the so-called
"public sector" (frankly speaking, I don't quite understand what it
really means), is not an exception either. As a result, the figures
who efficiently worked in the former convocation of the parliament and
were positively thought of by the people haven't become MPs this time
making way for the Free Democrats who certainly are very worthy people,
but don't fit in with the Heritage Party "brand." I personally continue
to think of Ruben Hakobyan as a member of the Armenian Revolutionary
Federation (ARF), probably because he represented that party in
the first "fake" parliament of 1995 alone. Now the situation in the
Heritage Party parliamentary group is more than strange - the Free
Democrats Party seems to wish to separate from the Heritage Party;
Raffi Hovhannisyan has renounced the office and the only pure Heritage
Party member in the parliament is Zaruhi Postanjyan.
One should consider that experience at least for the future. Dear
party members, don't form coalitions, don't join alliances, don't
"consolidate" anyone. It never bears fruit.
ARAM ABRAHAMYAN
From: A. Papazian
http://www.aravot.am/en/2012/10/11/119002/
October 11, 2012 13:16
Coalitions in our country have always had a sad fate. For example,
the two sides of the four-sided coalition formed after the 2008
presidential election are actually in the opposition today and bash
the government's drawbacks so severely (often legitimately) that one
can conclude that they have never been a part of the government. The
majority of the pro-government coalition Republic, including
the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA), formed in the 1990s became
Yerkrapah overnight standing by the government. The Republic Coalition
was basically destroyed after the events of October 27. Different
members of the opposition coalition Justice are in different places
today. Etcetera. The reason is that members of these coalitions have
not only ideological, but also tactical similarities. The meaning
of all them is the following - there is a force that has chances of
governing or appearing in the parliament, this force has aspirations to
create an illusion of some "consolidation" around it and for the sake
of its ambitions, it drags a few other figures, which usually appear
in the status of "poor relatives." They get bored with that rather
humiliating role sooner or later and at their earliest convenience,
those "attached" figures abandon the consolidator.
The Heritage Party, which made an obvious mistake before the latest
parliamentary election including the Free Democrats and the so-called
"public sector" (frankly speaking, I don't quite understand what it
really means), is not an exception either. As a result, the figures
who efficiently worked in the former convocation of the parliament and
were positively thought of by the people haven't become MPs this time
making way for the Free Democrats who certainly are very worthy people,
but don't fit in with the Heritage Party "brand." I personally continue
to think of Ruben Hakobyan as a member of the Armenian Revolutionary
Federation (ARF), probably because he represented that party in
the first "fake" parliament of 1995 alone. Now the situation in the
Heritage Party parliamentary group is more than strange - the Free
Democrats Party seems to wish to separate from the Heritage Party;
Raffi Hovhannisyan has renounced the office and the only pure Heritage
Party member in the parliament is Zaruhi Postanjyan.
One should consider that experience at least for the future. Dear
party members, don't form coalitions, don't join alliances, don't
"consolidate" anyone. It never bears fruit.
ARAM ABRAHAMYAN
From: A. Papazian