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Hayrikyan assassination attempt cuts Serzh Sargsyan's tongue short - expert
TERT.AM
20:00 - 02.02.13
Presidential candidate Paruyr Hayrikyan was just a physical target
with the goal of his assassination attempt being to cut short the
tongue of incumbent president, presidential candidate Serzh Sargsyan
both inside the country and outside of it, political analyst, election
expert Armen Badalyan said speaking to Tert.am.
If not Hayrikyan, the targets would have been either presidential
candidate Hrant Bagratyan or Raffi Hovhannisian.
`The attempt was to show that the president failed to ensure normal
conditions and to give a strong blow to the president's campaign. We
remember that the main message of president's campaign is `Toward Safe
Armenia', while now it appears that you fail to ensure the safety of
presidential candidates, how you will ensure safe Armenia,' the expert
explained.
He reminded Serzh Sargsyan's message voiced in Abovian at the meeting
with voters that the elections must pass normally for his `tongue to
be long both inside and outside of the country.'
`Now his tongue was cut short with these shots,' the expert said,
adding that noise after assassination attempt was big, and the
election process, being marked with more quantitative then qualitative
participation, now is deprived of its another privilege of being
peaceful.
`The noise was necessary to finally spoil the campaign. First time
Serzh Sargsyan came to power in illegitimate conditions after March 1,
and this time as well he will not have political legitimacy,' Badalyan
said, adding that not because of the shooting only but uncompetitive
elections as well.
As to the change of the political situation, the expert said nothing
has changed as the election outcome will be as it is already
pre-determined with Hayrikyan not being a candidate the elimination of
who would have caused essential changes in the election outcome.
Armen Badalyan also drew the attention on the circumstance that what
happened with Hayrikyan was immediately described by mass media and
political figures as assassination attempt. He said in Armenia during
the past 20 years if someone wanted to kill anyone he kills him, the
claims that the killer missed is not convincing.
`If Russia wants to eliminate anyone, it does it, if West wants it, it
does it too,' the expert said.
Asked whether the elections will be postponed for 15 days or not,
Badalyan said it does not matter as the election campaign cannot
continue normally after the shooting. This circumstance will not be
missed in the reports of both CIS and European observers.
`Both Russian and western observers believe that Hayrikyan is the
political figure the absence of who would have influenced the election
outcome. The situation though is already being assessed as negative,'
he said.
So, Armen Badalyan does not believe in the hypotheses of Russian
special services.
From: A. Papazian
TERT.AM
20:00 - 02.02.13
Presidential candidate Paruyr Hayrikyan was just a physical target
with the goal of his assassination attempt being to cut short the
tongue of incumbent president, presidential candidate Serzh Sargsyan
both inside the country and outside of it, political analyst, election
expert Armen Badalyan said speaking to Tert.am.
If not Hayrikyan, the targets would have been either presidential
candidate Hrant Bagratyan or Raffi Hovhannisian.
`The attempt was to show that the president failed to ensure normal
conditions and to give a strong blow to the president's campaign. We
remember that the main message of president's campaign is `Toward Safe
Armenia', while now it appears that you fail to ensure the safety of
presidential candidates, how you will ensure safe Armenia,' the expert
explained.
He reminded Serzh Sargsyan's message voiced in Abovian at the meeting
with voters that the elections must pass normally for his `tongue to
be long both inside and outside of the country.'
`Now his tongue was cut short with these shots,' the expert said,
adding that noise after assassination attempt was big, and the
election process, being marked with more quantitative then qualitative
participation, now is deprived of its another privilege of being
peaceful.
`The noise was necessary to finally spoil the campaign. First time
Serzh Sargsyan came to power in illegitimate conditions after March 1,
and this time as well he will not have political legitimacy,' Badalyan
said, adding that not because of the shooting only but uncompetitive
elections as well.
As to the change of the political situation, the expert said nothing
has changed as the election outcome will be as it is already
pre-determined with Hayrikyan not being a candidate the elimination of
who would have caused essential changes in the election outcome.
Armen Badalyan also drew the attention on the circumstance that what
happened with Hayrikyan was immediately described by mass media and
political figures as assassination attempt. He said in Armenia during
the past 20 years if someone wanted to kill anyone he kills him, the
claims that the killer missed is not convincing.
`If Russia wants to eliminate anyone, it does it, if West wants it, it
does it too,' the expert said.
Asked whether the elections will be postponed for 15 days or not,
Badalyan said it does not matter as the election campaign cannot
continue normally after the shooting. This circumstance will not be
missed in the reports of both CIS and European observers.
`Both Russian and western observers believe that Hayrikyan is the
political figure the absence of who would have influenced the election
outcome. The situation though is already being assessed as negative,'
he said.
So, Armen Badalyan does not believe in the hypotheses of Russian
special services.
From: A. Papazian