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POLITICAL EXPERT: MOSCOW HAS NO PART IN COLLAPSE OF PROSPEROUS ARMENIA PARTY
by Nana Martirosyan
Friday, March 6, 12:19
Moscow does not care for the domestic policy of Armenia unless it
starts affecting the regional and foreign policy of the country.
Consequently, the collapse of the Prosperous Armenia Party could not
be planned by Russia. Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute Sergey
Minasyan told ArmInfo on March 6.
"Moscow does not care for the domestic policy of Armenia unless it
affects the country's balanced and sometimes pro-Russian stand. In
addition, Russia perceives the domestic policy conflicts in Armenia
as provocations by the West. So, there is no sense is creating
additional conflicts," he said. The politician believes that it
were miscalculations and hasty steps that collapsed the PAP. "It
is no longer as powerful a party as it was in January," Minasyan
said. The political expert said Naira Zohrabyan's appointment as
the PAP leader was anticipated following Gagik Tsarukyan's February
5 call for consolidation and snap elections. "If Tsarukyan did not
retreat in 2012 and consolidated the opposition and participated
in the elections, we would have a bipolar political field today,"
Minasyan said. He is sure that the incumbent authorities are also
weak and lack public confidence.
Minasyan thinks Tsarukyan may emerge again ahead of the presidential
election in 2018. "Everything is possible. Yet a year ago, no one
could even imagine that the first and second presidents of Armenia,
Ter- Petrosyan and Kocharyan, might support the same political force.
However, the image of a politician is of big importance. Tsarukyan
has retreated twice already - he would hardly manage to enlist the
public support for a third time," he said.
At the PAP Congress on March 5 Gagik Tsarukyan stepped down as the
PAP leader and announced that he leaves the big politics. Secretary
of the PAP parliamentary faction Naira Zohrabyan replaced him on the
posts of the PAP leader and PAP faction head saying the party will be
operating in he opposition camp. Mayors of Nor Hachn and Byureghavan,
Gagik Matevosyan and Hakob Balasanyan, left the Party on March 6.
Earlier, ex-minister of foreign affairs of Armenia, parliamentarian
Vartan Oskanian, Gyumri Mayor Samvel Balasanyan and another 7
parliamentarians had left the PAP.
http://www.arminfo.am/index.cfm?objectid=F3AEBAD0-C3E1-11E4-BF0B0EB7C0D21663
From: Baghdasarian
by Nana Martirosyan
Friday, March 6, 12:19
Moscow does not care for the domestic policy of Armenia unless it
starts affecting the regional and foreign policy of the country.
Consequently, the collapse of the Prosperous Armenia Party could not
be planned by Russia. Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute Sergey
Minasyan told ArmInfo on March 6.
"Moscow does not care for the domestic policy of Armenia unless it
affects the country's balanced and sometimes pro-Russian stand. In
addition, Russia perceives the domestic policy conflicts in Armenia
as provocations by the West. So, there is no sense is creating
additional conflicts," he said. The politician believes that it
were miscalculations and hasty steps that collapsed the PAP. "It
is no longer as powerful a party as it was in January," Minasyan
said. The political expert said Naira Zohrabyan's appointment as
the PAP leader was anticipated following Gagik Tsarukyan's February
5 call for consolidation and snap elections. "If Tsarukyan did not
retreat in 2012 and consolidated the opposition and participated
in the elections, we would have a bipolar political field today,"
Minasyan said. He is sure that the incumbent authorities are also
weak and lack public confidence.
Minasyan thinks Tsarukyan may emerge again ahead of the presidential
election in 2018. "Everything is possible. Yet a year ago, no one
could even imagine that the first and second presidents of Armenia,
Ter- Petrosyan and Kocharyan, might support the same political force.
However, the image of a politician is of big importance. Tsarukyan
has retreated twice already - he would hardly manage to enlist the
public support for a third time," he said.
At the PAP Congress on March 5 Gagik Tsarukyan stepped down as the
PAP leader and announced that he leaves the big politics. Secretary
of the PAP parliamentary faction Naira Zohrabyan replaced him on the
posts of the PAP leader and PAP faction head saying the party will be
operating in he opposition camp. Mayors of Nor Hachn and Byureghavan,
Gagik Matevosyan and Hakob Balasanyan, left the Party on March 6.
Earlier, ex-minister of foreign affairs of Armenia, parliamentarian
Vartan Oskanian, Gyumri Mayor Samvel Balasanyan and another 7
parliamentarians had left the PAP.
http://www.arminfo.am/index.cfm?objectid=F3AEBAD0-C3E1-11E4-BF0B0EB7C0D21663
From: Baghdasarian