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SERZH SARGSYAN NEEDS TSARUKYAN'S MONEY
The Prosperous Armenia Party has been unable to figure out its
political mission in the logic of internal and external developments
since 2006. When Vartan Oskanian joined the party in 2012, it seemed
that the godfather of the PAP, Robert Kocharyan and his party activists
were aware of this problem and were trying to resolve it.
Further developments showed, however, that the PAP is deprived of
a potential of political mission, and Vartan Oskanian alone will not
bring spring, especially that Oskanian willy-nilly set to establish the
political mission of the PAP, without first identifying his personal
political mission for himself.
Hence, it should be noted that the PAP holds out a political banner
but willy-nilly fulfils an economic mission.
When the Aravot asked Levon Zurabyan of the ANC what he thinks
about vote buying by PAP, Zurabyan said when a political force buys
votes, the government is to blame because the government and its law
enforcement agencies are supposed to prevent vote buying.
This answer which is strange from the civil and political point of
view is quite right from the technical point of view. If the government
is reluctant, the PAP or any other force will not be able to buy votes.
The question is why the government wants so if the PAP is not
government and is opposed to the RPA. The RPA has three important
reasons. First, by allowing the PAP to buy votes the RPA legitimizes
its vote buying activity. Second, by allowing the PAP to buy votes
the government gains another lever against this party because it can
prosecute the party for vote buying any time it wants. Note that
during the parliamentary election only one vote buyer of PAP was
arrested amid total vote buying.
Third, the PAP has an economic mission which is highly important to
the RPA. How much money does Gagik Tsarukyan spend on his political
activity? There is no such statistics but the bill is measured in
millions of dollars. The party's spending is a peculiar investment.
The PAP is as big as the RPA, which costs a lot of money, especially
during elections. It is something usual in the entire world. Legality
of the money is another issue but money is essential to the activities
of almost all the influential parties in the world.
Besides, Gagik Tsarukyan spends a lot of money via Gagik Tsarukyan
Benevolent Foundation which he would not have done were there no need
to underpin his "political" ambitions.
I have done a lot and will do a lot more independent from everything,
Gagik Tsarukyan stated in the yard of his wine company during his
meeting with PAP members. Of course, he will do. Otherwise there
would be much less people not only in that meeting but also in the
PAP because a lot of people are attracted by the financial reward
they get for their work there rather than ideas or values of the PAP
which actually do not differ from the classical Armenian governmental
values and ideas.
If Tsarukyan did not do investments in politics, he would hardly
invest them in the Armenian economy because he obviously prefers to
invest in Eastern Europe, Belarus, the Baltic States.
Hence, politics is the reason why Gagik Tsarukyan spends millions in
Armenia which eventually relieve social tensions a bit.
Ostensibly, Serzh Sargsyan will not hinder the PAP to continue to
live with serious "political" ambitions. At least, until the vital
issue of redistribution of property comes, and sufficient sources of
medium-term solutions to social issues are are found.
Hakob Badalyan 15:08 02/05/2013 Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/index.php/eng/0/comments/view/29769
The Prosperous Armenia Party has been unable to figure out its
political mission in the logic of internal and external developments
since 2006. When Vartan Oskanian joined the party in 2012, it seemed
that the godfather of the PAP, Robert Kocharyan and his party activists
were aware of this problem and were trying to resolve it.
Further developments showed, however, that the PAP is deprived of
a potential of political mission, and Vartan Oskanian alone will not
bring spring, especially that Oskanian willy-nilly set to establish the
political mission of the PAP, without first identifying his personal
political mission for himself.
Hence, it should be noted that the PAP holds out a political banner
but willy-nilly fulfils an economic mission.
When the Aravot asked Levon Zurabyan of the ANC what he thinks
about vote buying by PAP, Zurabyan said when a political force buys
votes, the government is to blame because the government and its law
enforcement agencies are supposed to prevent vote buying.
This answer which is strange from the civil and political point of
view is quite right from the technical point of view. If the government
is reluctant, the PAP or any other force will not be able to buy votes.
The question is why the government wants so if the PAP is not
government and is opposed to the RPA. The RPA has three important
reasons. First, by allowing the PAP to buy votes the RPA legitimizes
its vote buying activity. Second, by allowing the PAP to buy votes
the government gains another lever against this party because it can
prosecute the party for vote buying any time it wants. Note that
during the parliamentary election only one vote buyer of PAP was
arrested amid total vote buying.
Third, the PAP has an economic mission which is highly important to
the RPA. How much money does Gagik Tsarukyan spend on his political
activity? There is no such statistics but the bill is measured in
millions of dollars. The party's spending is a peculiar investment.
The PAP is as big as the RPA, which costs a lot of money, especially
during elections. It is something usual in the entire world. Legality
of the money is another issue but money is essential to the activities
of almost all the influential parties in the world.
Besides, Gagik Tsarukyan spends a lot of money via Gagik Tsarukyan
Benevolent Foundation which he would not have done were there no need
to underpin his "political" ambitions.
I have done a lot and will do a lot more independent from everything,
Gagik Tsarukyan stated in the yard of his wine company during his
meeting with PAP members. Of course, he will do. Otherwise there
would be much less people not only in that meeting but also in the
PAP because a lot of people are attracted by the financial reward
they get for their work there rather than ideas or values of the PAP
which actually do not differ from the classical Armenian governmental
values and ideas.
If Tsarukyan did not do investments in politics, he would hardly
invest them in the Armenian economy because he obviously prefers to
invest in Eastern Europe, Belarus, the Baltic States.
Hence, politics is the reason why Gagik Tsarukyan spends millions in
Armenia which eventually relieve social tensions a bit.
Ostensibly, Serzh Sargsyan will not hinder the PAP to continue to
live with serious "political" ambitions. At least, until the vital
issue of redistribution of property comes, and sufficient sources of
medium-term solutions to social issues are are found.
Hakob Badalyan 15:08 02/05/2013 Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/index.php/eng/0/comments/view/29769