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Speaker's Open Game Against Prime Minister
Speaker Hovik Abrahamyan seems to be playing an open game against
Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan. Listening to Ishkhan Zakaryan, head
of the Control Chamber, and learning from him about budget misuse and
squandering, the speaker announced that the prime minister has a lot
to do. Abrahamyan is amazed to hear about robbery, and the head of
government has a lot of work to do.
Of course, one is amazed that the speaker is amazed who used to be
deputy prime minister for many years. It is not news that the state
budget is robbed. Mildly speaking, it would be ingenuous to be so
ingenuous as to think that financial misuse began after 2008. So,
Hovik Ahrahamyan should not have been surprised by either misuse or
lack of prosecution.
Otherwise one can be amazed that as deputy prime minister Hovik
Abrahamyan never brought up the issue of targeted spending of the
budget. Similarly, the officials of Armenia need not be surprised at
each other because they are all chained together to the same boat.
The boat is small, however, and it cannot take them all, so the
representatives of the authorities are increasingly competing.
Recently Hovik Abrahamyan has also chided the banks for high interest
and short terms for loans, obviously targeting Tigran Sargsyan,
the guardian of the banks of Armenia, especially when he was the
president of the Central Bank.
This system is in a controversial situation. On the one hand, steady
growth is maintained, on the other hand, the banks are cut from the
rest of economy and confined to the role of a savings bank rather
than that of financing the economy. On the one hand, a separate
system has been set up successfully with a high-level organizational
culture where intellectual jobs are created, and relations are set
up. On the other hand, it is resembling a state within a state, and
the impression is that as soon as the banks integrate with the real
economy, they will collapse. And what will happen if otherwise they
do not integrate? What is the long-term goal of this greenhouse system?
Instead, the goal of the internal competition in the government is
outlining clearly. Competition will intensify ahead of the presidential
election 2018 when the second term of Sargsyan ends. Both Hovik
Abrahamyan and Tigran Sargsyan are contenders. For the time being,
Tigran Sargsyan has more real influence within the system than Hovik
Abrahamyan.
What is the indicator? The foreign policy. For any other normal country
the indicator would be domestic policy. However, as the processes
are not autonomous, and the country's resources have been wasted to
the bottom, Armenia is totally ruled by geopolitical developments.
It is a real threat to national security but it is the reality which
will last till at least 2018. So, without a breakthrough in the
civil sector and the opposition, the internal developments will be
determined by foreign influence.
In this regard Tigran Sargsyan has so far successfully proceeded
along rapprochement with the West, marking time in the relations with
Russia and refraining from abrupt steps, and at the same time winning
overMoscow with semi-steps. If his success lasts till November, the
pre-signed Association Agreement with the EU will be a milestone for
Tigran Sargsyan's success in internal relations after his reappointment
as prime minister.
So, his opponents, including Hovik Abrahamyan, need to hinder
Sargsyan. This is a convenient time for that because the inefficient
economic policy of the government has aggravated the social situation,
plus the offshore scandal which Tigran Sargsyan has not been able to
deny. What he said in parliament aroused even more questions.
It is not a surprise that Hovik Abrahamyan does not want to miss the
moment and catch Tigran Sargsyan because if the Association Agreement
is signed in the current correlation of forces, after pre-signing
Hovik Abrahamyan will be left out of the list of "contenders", even
if social tension and interests on loans remain high.
However, independent from the motivation of his actions, the questions
that are asked in parliament, including interest rates and budget
robbery by officials are more urgent and important than the score of
Tigran Sargsyan-Hovik Abrahamyan game.
Hakob Badalyan 12:02 14/06/2013 Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/index/eng/0/comments/view/30164
Speaker's Open Game Against Prime Minister
Speaker Hovik Abrahamyan seems to be playing an open game against
Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan. Listening to Ishkhan Zakaryan, head
of the Control Chamber, and learning from him about budget misuse and
squandering, the speaker announced that the prime minister has a lot
to do. Abrahamyan is amazed to hear about robbery, and the head of
government has a lot of work to do.
Of course, one is amazed that the speaker is amazed who used to be
deputy prime minister for many years. It is not news that the state
budget is robbed. Mildly speaking, it would be ingenuous to be so
ingenuous as to think that financial misuse began after 2008. So,
Hovik Ahrahamyan should not have been surprised by either misuse or
lack of prosecution.
Otherwise one can be amazed that as deputy prime minister Hovik
Abrahamyan never brought up the issue of targeted spending of the
budget. Similarly, the officials of Armenia need not be surprised at
each other because they are all chained together to the same boat.
The boat is small, however, and it cannot take them all, so the
representatives of the authorities are increasingly competing.
Recently Hovik Abrahamyan has also chided the banks for high interest
and short terms for loans, obviously targeting Tigran Sargsyan,
the guardian of the banks of Armenia, especially when he was the
president of the Central Bank.
This system is in a controversial situation. On the one hand, steady
growth is maintained, on the other hand, the banks are cut from the
rest of economy and confined to the role of a savings bank rather
than that of financing the economy. On the one hand, a separate
system has been set up successfully with a high-level organizational
culture where intellectual jobs are created, and relations are set
up. On the other hand, it is resembling a state within a state, and
the impression is that as soon as the banks integrate with the real
economy, they will collapse. And what will happen if otherwise they
do not integrate? What is the long-term goal of this greenhouse system?
Instead, the goal of the internal competition in the government is
outlining clearly. Competition will intensify ahead of the presidential
election 2018 when the second term of Sargsyan ends. Both Hovik
Abrahamyan and Tigran Sargsyan are contenders. For the time being,
Tigran Sargsyan has more real influence within the system than Hovik
Abrahamyan.
What is the indicator? The foreign policy. For any other normal country
the indicator would be domestic policy. However, as the processes
are not autonomous, and the country's resources have been wasted to
the bottom, Armenia is totally ruled by geopolitical developments.
It is a real threat to national security but it is the reality which
will last till at least 2018. So, without a breakthrough in the
civil sector and the opposition, the internal developments will be
determined by foreign influence.
In this regard Tigran Sargsyan has so far successfully proceeded
along rapprochement with the West, marking time in the relations with
Russia and refraining from abrupt steps, and at the same time winning
overMoscow with semi-steps. If his success lasts till November, the
pre-signed Association Agreement with the EU will be a milestone for
Tigran Sargsyan's success in internal relations after his reappointment
as prime minister.
So, his opponents, including Hovik Abrahamyan, need to hinder
Sargsyan. This is a convenient time for that because the inefficient
economic policy of the government has aggravated the social situation,
plus the offshore scandal which Tigran Sargsyan has not been able to
deny. What he said in parliament aroused even more questions.
It is not a surprise that Hovik Abrahamyan does not want to miss the
moment and catch Tigran Sargsyan because if the Association Agreement
is signed in the current correlation of forces, after pre-signing
Hovik Abrahamyan will be left out of the list of "contenders", even
if social tension and interests on loans remain high.
However, independent from the motivation of his actions, the questions
that are asked in parliament, including interest rates and budget
robbery by officials are more urgent and important than the score of
Tigran Sargsyan-Hovik Abrahamyan game.
Hakob Badalyan 12:02 14/06/2013 Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/index/eng/0/comments/view/30164