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WHAT DID SERZH SARGSYAN WARN HAYRIKYAN ABOUT WHILE VISITING HIM IN THE HOSPITAL?
February 12 2013
"I cannot quite understand how a person on the right side of 60
can express absolutely different opinions a few times a day," Ruben
Mehrabyan, an expert of the Center for Political and International
Studies, said in response to a question of www.aravot.am what the logic
of P. Hayrikyan's moves was. According to the political scientist,
the time will come and Hayrikyan will give that answer. R.
Mehrabyan thinks that Hayrikyan's moves don't have a political
explanation. Mr. Mehrabyan wished to "have a clear conscience" and
didn't comment on the news that these moves of Hayrikyan were made to
grab an office. In recent days, the fact that President Serzh Sargsyan
had visited P. Hayrikyan twice has been exploited too. Mr. Mehrabyan
said in this regard: "I am sure that besides inquiring about his
health, they also discussed his future steps during these meetings."
Armen Badalyan, an expert in political and electoral technologies,
thinks that S. Sargsyan explained certain things and warned
Hayrikyan during the meetings in the hospital and goes into detail:
"The incumbent president might explain that Hayrikyan shouldn't
try to play an active role in the theatrical act under way and try
to attach importance to his filing or not filing a petition in the
Constitutional Court. Hayrikyan doesn't carry political weight to
try to grab something, since the president has a lot more resources
to turn this whole joke to Hayrikyan's disadvantage. No one can
guarantee that the arrested drug addicts will not say during an
interrogation that it was arranged by Hayrikyan. In all probability,
the incumbent president explained to Hayrikyan that he shouldn't
cherish any hopes to gain dividends from this process. He will not
gain anything anyway." A. Badalyan describes Hayrikyan's moves as an
attempt "to grab journalists' attention." As for getting an office,
he states: "If the incumbent president wants to give an office to
him, he will do it without any incident. If he doesn't want, he
will not do it. At the end of the day, one should understand that it
didn't matter whether Hayrikyan would or wouldn't file a petition in
the Constitutional Court, since the Constitutional Court is not an
independent legal system. It is an office attached to the Presidential
Palace that carries out certain projects. Whether the election would
be postponed or not was to be decided in the Presidential Palace
too. Only equal parties bargain. And if one party is the president,
and it doesn't matter what percentage of votes the other party will
win, there is no bargaining between such forces, and there is no
buying or selling of offices between such forces." In conclusion,
A. Badalyan stated that the forces that wished to turn the election
into a joke have managed to do that, and it is already clear that
the incumbent president is not legitimate.
Tatev HARUTYUNYAN
Read more at: http://en.aravot.am/2013/02/12/152146/
From: Baghdasarian
February 12 2013
"I cannot quite understand how a person on the right side of 60
can express absolutely different opinions a few times a day," Ruben
Mehrabyan, an expert of the Center for Political and International
Studies, said in response to a question of www.aravot.am what the logic
of P. Hayrikyan's moves was. According to the political scientist,
the time will come and Hayrikyan will give that answer. R.
Mehrabyan thinks that Hayrikyan's moves don't have a political
explanation. Mr. Mehrabyan wished to "have a clear conscience" and
didn't comment on the news that these moves of Hayrikyan were made to
grab an office. In recent days, the fact that President Serzh Sargsyan
had visited P. Hayrikyan twice has been exploited too. Mr. Mehrabyan
said in this regard: "I am sure that besides inquiring about his
health, they also discussed his future steps during these meetings."
Armen Badalyan, an expert in political and electoral technologies,
thinks that S. Sargsyan explained certain things and warned
Hayrikyan during the meetings in the hospital and goes into detail:
"The incumbent president might explain that Hayrikyan shouldn't
try to play an active role in the theatrical act under way and try
to attach importance to his filing or not filing a petition in the
Constitutional Court. Hayrikyan doesn't carry political weight to
try to grab something, since the president has a lot more resources
to turn this whole joke to Hayrikyan's disadvantage. No one can
guarantee that the arrested drug addicts will not say during an
interrogation that it was arranged by Hayrikyan. In all probability,
the incumbent president explained to Hayrikyan that he shouldn't
cherish any hopes to gain dividends from this process. He will not
gain anything anyway." A. Badalyan describes Hayrikyan's moves as an
attempt "to grab journalists' attention." As for getting an office,
he states: "If the incumbent president wants to give an office to
him, he will do it without any incident. If he doesn't want, he
will not do it. At the end of the day, one should understand that it
didn't matter whether Hayrikyan would or wouldn't file a petition in
the Constitutional Court, since the Constitutional Court is not an
independent legal system. It is an office attached to the Presidential
Palace that carries out certain projects. Whether the election would
be postponed or not was to be decided in the Presidential Palace
too. Only equal parties bargain. And if one party is the president,
and it doesn't matter what percentage of votes the other party will
win, there is no bargaining between such forces, and there is no
buying or selling of offices between such forces." In conclusion,
A. Badalyan stated that the forces that wished to turn the election
into a joke have managed to do that, and it is already clear that
the incumbent president is not legitimate.
Tatev HARUTYUNYAN
Read more at: http://en.aravot.am/2013/02/12/152146/
From: Baghdasarian