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JAMES HAKOBYAN
11:22 23/03/2013
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/index.php/eng/0/comments/view/29395
After Serzh Sargsyan's statement that he will not change the
government which has achieved its goals, Prosperous Armenia Party has
launched an offensive against Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan. Tigran
Sargsyan has been the target of the PAP for a long time. The RPA and
PAP clash periodically on the prime minister's economic policy.
Now the situation is interesting because the PAP is shaking its fists
after the fight, when Serzh Sargsyan had already announced that he
will not change the government.
Or is the offensive against the prime minister reasoned by their plans
relating to the mayoral election in Yerevan? Prosperous Armenia may be
trying to score points by criticizing not only Mayor Margaryan but
also Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan. Or Prosperous Armenia treats the
mayoral election as an election of prime minister in deeper terms.
Vartan Oskanian leading the PAP list states, `Taking up the government
of the city alone or by means of coalition with other political forces
will enable creating a strong balance in the Armenian political
system, which will promote efficient governance and real reforms.'
In other words, if PAP wins the mayoral election alone or in a
coalition, PAP will certainly claim to the post of prime minister. It
takes a parliamentary majority, of course, but in the absence of one
the majority of Yerevan will replace it.
There is an obstacle though. It is Raffi Hovannisian. In the
post-electoral period, he did not play by anyone's rules,
disappointing everyone, maybe even his fellow party members. It is a
threat to PAP's plans on municipal majority. For the PAP the best
option would be Raffi refraining from the local election and heat the
atmosphere on the square, which the PAP could use as an argument in
its negotiations with RPA. However, Raffi Hovannisian deprived the PAP
of this advantage and an argument in a possible discussion of the post
of prime minister with Serzh Sargsyan.
However, it is not ruled out that PAP's aspirations to the post of
prime minister are exaggerated, and the party internally knows very
well the border of its abilities and will. It is the role of balance
to the RPA. The Armenian political parties have run out of their
ability to act as independent sources of domestic policy and have
yielded themselves to external signals and influence. Nevertheless,
they have understood that Armenia needs checks and balances, a ruling
party v. another force, the stick hanging over the head of the ruling
party.
The PAP is aspiring to the status of this stick. It has failed to
perform the duties supposed by this status for several times, and lost
this status in the presidential election 2013.
Nothing is impossible for the political reanimation of Armenia but an
important premise must be in place. The civil and social factor needs
to be eliminated. Raffi Hovannisian succeeds protecting it with an
almost invincible armor - hunger strike.
>From this point of view, there is nothing else left to oppose to
Hovannisian's impeccable strategy but another grand performance of
star wars with RPA, which the RPA is intensively trying to generate.
JAMES HAKOBYAN
11:22 23/03/2013
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/index.php/eng/0/comments/view/29395
After Serzh Sargsyan's statement that he will not change the
government which has achieved its goals, Prosperous Armenia Party has
launched an offensive against Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan. Tigran
Sargsyan has been the target of the PAP for a long time. The RPA and
PAP clash periodically on the prime minister's economic policy.
Now the situation is interesting because the PAP is shaking its fists
after the fight, when Serzh Sargsyan had already announced that he
will not change the government.
Or is the offensive against the prime minister reasoned by their plans
relating to the mayoral election in Yerevan? Prosperous Armenia may be
trying to score points by criticizing not only Mayor Margaryan but
also Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan. Or Prosperous Armenia treats the
mayoral election as an election of prime minister in deeper terms.
Vartan Oskanian leading the PAP list states, `Taking up the government
of the city alone or by means of coalition with other political forces
will enable creating a strong balance in the Armenian political
system, which will promote efficient governance and real reforms.'
In other words, if PAP wins the mayoral election alone or in a
coalition, PAP will certainly claim to the post of prime minister. It
takes a parliamentary majority, of course, but in the absence of one
the majority of Yerevan will replace it.
There is an obstacle though. It is Raffi Hovannisian. In the
post-electoral period, he did not play by anyone's rules,
disappointing everyone, maybe even his fellow party members. It is a
threat to PAP's plans on municipal majority. For the PAP the best
option would be Raffi refraining from the local election and heat the
atmosphere on the square, which the PAP could use as an argument in
its negotiations with RPA. However, Raffi Hovannisian deprived the PAP
of this advantage and an argument in a possible discussion of the post
of prime minister with Serzh Sargsyan.
However, it is not ruled out that PAP's aspirations to the post of
prime minister are exaggerated, and the party internally knows very
well the border of its abilities and will. It is the role of balance
to the RPA. The Armenian political parties have run out of their
ability to act as independent sources of domestic policy and have
yielded themselves to external signals and influence. Nevertheless,
they have understood that Armenia needs checks and balances, a ruling
party v. another force, the stick hanging over the head of the ruling
party.
The PAP is aspiring to the status of this stick. It has failed to
perform the duties supposed by this status for several times, and lost
this status in the presidential election 2013.
Nothing is impossible for the political reanimation of Armenia but an
important premise must be in place. The civil and social factor needs
to be eliminated. Raffi Hovannisian succeeds protecting it with an
almost invincible armor - hunger strike.
>From this point of view, there is nothing else left to oppose to
Hovannisian's impeccable strategy but another grand performance of
star wars with RPA, which the RPA is intensively trying to generate.