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"SERZH SARGSYAN DISMISSED TIGRAN SARGSYAN UNDER THE PRESSURE OF NON-GOVERNMENT FORCES." ZOYA TADEVOSYAN
April 11 2014
Today, the President of the Republic of Armenia has held a meeting with
all the members of the Commission for Constitutional Amendments and has
presented the preliminary draft of the Constitutional Amendments. At
the briefing, Gagik Harutyunyan informed that in the course of the
meeting they touched upon the change of the model for RA Government
system and President Serzh Sargsyan had said that he is not intended
to continue the leadership of the country as the next President of
Armenia or as Prime Minister in the event of switching to alternative
government, and urged the Commission to act freely. In this regard,
in the conversation with Aravot.am, the ANC faction member Zoya
Tadevosyan assured that Serzh Sargsyan's statement does not mean
anything to her. "During this entire period of Serzh Sargsyan's
tenure, I have my own opinion about him. I definitely would not like
him to take the office of the president or the prime minister, which,
of course, can happen only on the basis of fabrication of elections
and constitutional amendments. The current Constitution does not
give him this opportunity. Therefore, his statement, I think, is not
quite a constitutional statement. In any case, the managers like Serzh
Sargsyan have no right to come close to the Armenian throne. They do
not have those merits that the president should have. They have no
sense of statehood, commitment to the state.
And such people are not even entitled to manage the housing and
communal service, not to speak about being the next president or the
prime minister." At the tenure of Serzh Sargsyan, there were numerous
recommendations from the opposition to shift to the parliamentary
government system, but the authorities were constantly delaying the
matter bringing different excuses and were not giving any proceeding.
To our question of, now, when Serzh Sargsyan is trying to change the
model of government, whether we can say that in the end of his term
in office he wants to clean up the mistakes and make a positive step
for the country, such as Tigran Sargsyan's dismissal, Zoya Tadevosyan
replied, "Serzh Sargsyan did not dismiss Tigran Sargsyan by his own
will. He did it under the pressure of four political forces.
Otherwise, the situation will get worse, and they would be forced
not to resign, but one day to leave the country unexpectedly. Such a
situation would be created. They realized it very well and prevented
such possibility at a good time. And I never expect for a good step
from Serzh Sargsyan. A person who wants to do good, or a person who
realizes of leaving something behind after him would never come to
power, at the cost of murders." In his recent interview with iLur.am,
ANC leader Levon Ter-Petrosyan said that Serzh Sargsyan is a great
master of intrigues behind the curtains. If we look at the things by
this logic, we should see something beneficial for him behind his
every move. To the question of what is behind the step of moving
towards the Constitutional amendments and changing the government
system of the country, and why he is trying to change the form
of the government system, Zoya Tadevosyan replied, "I see more the
possibility of avoiding a stricter punishment, and a tendency to come
up with apologies."
Hripsime JEBEJYAN
Read more at: http://en.aravot.am/2014/04/11/164653/
April 11 2014
Today, the President of the Republic of Armenia has held a meeting with
all the members of the Commission for Constitutional Amendments and has
presented the preliminary draft of the Constitutional Amendments. At
the briefing, Gagik Harutyunyan informed that in the course of the
meeting they touched upon the change of the model for RA Government
system and President Serzh Sargsyan had said that he is not intended
to continue the leadership of the country as the next President of
Armenia or as Prime Minister in the event of switching to alternative
government, and urged the Commission to act freely. In this regard,
in the conversation with Aravot.am, the ANC faction member Zoya
Tadevosyan assured that Serzh Sargsyan's statement does not mean
anything to her. "During this entire period of Serzh Sargsyan's
tenure, I have my own opinion about him. I definitely would not like
him to take the office of the president or the prime minister, which,
of course, can happen only on the basis of fabrication of elections
and constitutional amendments. The current Constitution does not
give him this opportunity. Therefore, his statement, I think, is not
quite a constitutional statement. In any case, the managers like Serzh
Sargsyan have no right to come close to the Armenian throne. They do
not have those merits that the president should have. They have no
sense of statehood, commitment to the state.
And such people are not even entitled to manage the housing and
communal service, not to speak about being the next president or the
prime minister." At the tenure of Serzh Sargsyan, there were numerous
recommendations from the opposition to shift to the parliamentary
government system, but the authorities were constantly delaying the
matter bringing different excuses and were not giving any proceeding.
To our question of, now, when Serzh Sargsyan is trying to change the
model of government, whether we can say that in the end of his term
in office he wants to clean up the mistakes and make a positive step
for the country, such as Tigran Sargsyan's dismissal, Zoya Tadevosyan
replied, "Serzh Sargsyan did not dismiss Tigran Sargsyan by his own
will. He did it under the pressure of four political forces.
Otherwise, the situation will get worse, and they would be forced
not to resign, but one day to leave the country unexpectedly. Such a
situation would be created. They realized it very well and prevented
such possibility at a good time. And I never expect for a good step
from Serzh Sargsyan. A person who wants to do good, or a person who
realizes of leaving something behind after him would never come to
power, at the cost of murders." In his recent interview with iLur.am,
ANC leader Levon Ter-Petrosyan said that Serzh Sargsyan is a great
master of intrigues behind the curtains. If we look at the things by
this logic, we should see something beneficial for him behind his
every move. To the question of what is behind the step of moving
towards the Constitutional amendments and changing the government
system of the country, and why he is trying to change the form
of the government system, Zoya Tadevosyan replied, "I see more the
possibility of avoiding a stricter punishment, and a tendency to come
up with apologies."
Hripsime JEBEJYAN
Read more at: http://en.aravot.am/2014/04/11/164653/