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SERIOUS CONTROVERSIES WITHIN ARMENIA'S RULING CIRCLES - RUBIK HAKOBYAN
14:01 ~U 11.07.13
Rubik Hakobyan, Head of the Heritage parliamentary group, believes
that political developments will enter a new stage in Armenia this
autumn, to be crowned with success.
According to him, controversies within the ruling circles are not of
ideological nature.
"One thing is clear. The authorities' policy has failed and has no
prospects," Hakobyan told Tert.am, pointing out a number of subjective
and objective reasons.
"On the one hand, external forces set a task of deciding before
Armenia. Their requirements are now contradictory and have put
Armenia's authorities in a rather difficult situation," he said.
On the other hand, Armenia's society largely mistrusts the authorities
and is inclined to believe any claims discrediting the authorities.
"This is a serious political factor, when people lose confidence in
the authorities, which does not promise anything good," he said.
"When the external resources the authorities use to retain power
expire, the authorities turn to their internal resources, and
we can witness this process now in the form of intraparty fight
and re-alignments. We witnessed a similar process after the rigged
elections of 1996, when a crisis developed within the ruling circles,
which resulted in re-alignments," he said.
"Actually, Armenia has not seen a change of power during its
23-year-long independence, which hinders the state's natural
development," Hakobyan said.
With respect to the controversies, he said that "they are neither
ideological nor political. Rather, they are group controversies."
"If you focused on what happened during and after the presentation of
the Control Chamber's report, offshore scandal and other developments,
you must have noticed that both the accusers and the accused were
members of the power pyramid," he said.
http://www.tert.am/en/news/2013/07/11/rubik-hakobyan/
14:01 ~U 11.07.13
Rubik Hakobyan, Head of the Heritage parliamentary group, believes
that political developments will enter a new stage in Armenia this
autumn, to be crowned with success.
According to him, controversies within the ruling circles are not of
ideological nature.
"One thing is clear. The authorities' policy has failed and has no
prospects," Hakobyan told Tert.am, pointing out a number of subjective
and objective reasons.
"On the one hand, external forces set a task of deciding before
Armenia. Their requirements are now contradictory and have put
Armenia's authorities in a rather difficult situation," he said.
On the other hand, Armenia's society largely mistrusts the authorities
and is inclined to believe any claims discrediting the authorities.
"This is a serious political factor, when people lose confidence in
the authorities, which does not promise anything good," he said.
"When the external resources the authorities use to retain power
expire, the authorities turn to their internal resources, and
we can witness this process now in the form of intraparty fight
and re-alignments. We witnessed a similar process after the rigged
elections of 1996, when a crisis developed within the ruling circles,
which resulted in re-alignments," he said.
"Actually, Armenia has not seen a change of power during its
23-year-long independence, which hinders the state's natural
development," Hakobyan said.
With respect to the controversies, he said that "they are neither
ideological nor political. Rather, they are group controversies."
"If you focused on what happened during and after the presentation of
the Control Chamber's report, offshore scandal and other developments,
you must have noticed that both the accusers and the accused were
members of the power pyramid," he said.
http://www.tert.am/en/news/2013/07/11/rubik-hakobyan/