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TSARUKYAN IN MOSCOW: PAP LEADER MEETS WITH POLITICAL FORCES IN RUSSIA
Politics | 12.02.15 | 14:55
GOHAR ABRAHAMYAN
ArmeniaNow reporter
A two-day visit to Moscow by Prosperous Armenia Party leader
GagikTsarukyan in which the powerful businessman met with political
leaders in the Russian capital has raised speculation in Yerevan over
the oppositional party's intentions at home.
PAP - which calls itself the "alternative" party - is the powerbase
of the "troika", which including Armenian Revolutionary Federation
and Heritage parties, form the core of Armenia's political opposition.
Last week,Tsarukyan called a conference during which he said that
the country needs early elections.
The massage spread by the conference secretariat summarized
the results, and among other questions, it addressed President
SerzhSargsyan's initiative of constitutional changes which was
considered unacceptable and it said that if "the government,
nevertheless, does not listen to the social and political opinion and
turns to a referendum, then that day must be declared a NO referendum
day and start 24-hour national protests, with a demand for a change
of government."
StepanSafaryan, a political analyst, the founder and president of the
Armenian Institute of International and Security Affairs, thinks that
the very question of constitutional reforms took Tsarukyan to Russia.
"March is symbolic in the sense that SerzhSragsyan's final position on
constitutional reforms will be announced. In Autumn, GagikTsarukyan
probably blocked the protest movement, because he considered the
delay of adopting constitutional reforms a victory of the troika," the
political analyst said. He added that now when the ruling Republican
Party of Armenia (RPA) is discussing the question of reforms at its
Supreme Body meetings and it seems like an answer will soon be heard,
and junior Republicans are hinted about constitutional changes, another
mobilization of forces is taking place in the non-political field.
"The PAP takes a few steps, the first being the conference as an
act of unifying the opposition, the second - the hint about early
elections, and the third - the visit to Russia and meetings," the
political analyst said.
http://armenianow.com/news/politics/60568/gagiktsarukyan_prosperous_armenia_party_serzh_sarg syan
Politics | 12.02.15 | 14:55
GOHAR ABRAHAMYAN
ArmeniaNow reporter
A two-day visit to Moscow by Prosperous Armenia Party leader
GagikTsarukyan in which the powerful businessman met with political
leaders in the Russian capital has raised speculation in Yerevan over
the oppositional party's intentions at home.
PAP - which calls itself the "alternative" party - is the powerbase
of the "troika", which including Armenian Revolutionary Federation
and Heritage parties, form the core of Armenia's political opposition.
Last week,Tsarukyan called a conference during which he said that
the country needs early elections.
The massage spread by the conference secretariat summarized
the results, and among other questions, it addressed President
SerzhSargsyan's initiative of constitutional changes which was
considered unacceptable and it said that if "the government,
nevertheless, does not listen to the social and political opinion and
turns to a referendum, then that day must be declared a NO referendum
day and start 24-hour national protests, with a demand for a change
of government."
StepanSafaryan, a political analyst, the founder and president of the
Armenian Institute of International and Security Affairs, thinks that
the very question of constitutional reforms took Tsarukyan to Russia.
"March is symbolic in the sense that SerzhSragsyan's final position on
constitutional reforms will be announced. In Autumn, GagikTsarukyan
probably blocked the protest movement, because he considered the
delay of adopting constitutional reforms a victory of the troika," the
political analyst said. He added that now when the ruling Republican
Party of Armenia (RPA) is discussing the question of reforms at its
Supreme Body meetings and it seems like an answer will soon be heard,
and junior Republicans are hinted about constitutional changes, another
mobilization of forces is taking place in the non-political field.
"The PAP takes a few steps, the first being the conference as an
act of unifying the opposition, the second - the hint about early
elections, and the third - the visit to Russia and meetings," the
political analyst said.
http://armenianow.com/news/politics/60568/gagiktsarukyan_prosperous_armenia_party_serzh_sarg syan