Tweet
GAGIK TSARUKYAN'S RETIRES: PROSPEROUS ARMENIA PARTY CAN EMBARK ON NEW WAY
10:59 * 06.03.15
Prosperous Armenia party leader Gagik Tsarukyan made a statement on
his retirement from politics on Thursday.
Political engineer Vigen Hakobyan, Chairman of the Armenian Institute
of International and Security Affairs (AIISA) Styopa Safaryan and
ex-member of Armenia's Parliament Azat Arshakyan commented on the
statement in an interview with Tert.am.
"Nothing unexpected has happened. Immediately after Moscow's messengers
held talks with President Serzh Sargsyan and Gagik Tsarukyan in
Yerevan information leakage followed, and Gagik Tsarukyan retires
from politics. That is, Gagik Tsarukyan would do what Serzh Sargsyan
demanded at the meeting of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia
(RPA)," Mr Hakobyan said.
The demand was satisfied, and the new status was legalized. Mr
Tsarukyan retires from politics, but remains a businessman - not an
influential oligarch, but a big businessman.
Mr Arshakyan welcomes Mr Tsarukyan's decision.
"I am glad that a woman politician was nominated, especially Naira
Zohrabyan, who has been well known to the public for a long period,"
he said.
Mr Tsarukyan declined this way thus enabling his party to embark
on an alternative way - one that would not pose a threat to his
fellow-countrymen's security.
"A new course, new people and a new program. But it should be an
alternative program, the one that has been on the agenda until now,"
Mr Arshakyan said.
Mr Tsarukyan retired from politics at the right moment.
"The program the Prosperous Armenia party has implemented for the past
two months was a dangerous way. If a man announces his intention to
go to snap elections to root out the evil authorities, it means that
he has rejected this way," Mr Arshakyan said.
According to Mr Safaryan, Mr Tsarukyan has retired from politics
forever.
"I can be said with confidence because he has placed himself outside
his own party and states he is not going to have anything in common
with it any longer."
Asked if Mr Tsarukyan was to be expected to make such a decision,
Mr Safaryan said:
"Mr Tsarukyan was facing numerous risks, without reckoning with all
of them. In this respect, he was certainly expected to make such
a decision."
With respect to the Prosperous Armenia party itself, Mr Safaryan said
that the task is to cause the party to re-take its course of 2007.
"That is, there must be a political force that could be critical of
the ruling party, without posing a threat to it."
http://www.tert.am/en/news/2015/03/06/tsarukiancomments/1608933
From: Baghdasarian
10:59 * 06.03.15
Prosperous Armenia party leader Gagik Tsarukyan made a statement on
his retirement from politics on Thursday.
Political engineer Vigen Hakobyan, Chairman of the Armenian Institute
of International and Security Affairs (AIISA) Styopa Safaryan and
ex-member of Armenia's Parliament Azat Arshakyan commented on the
statement in an interview with Tert.am.
"Nothing unexpected has happened. Immediately after Moscow's messengers
held talks with President Serzh Sargsyan and Gagik Tsarukyan in
Yerevan information leakage followed, and Gagik Tsarukyan retires
from politics. That is, Gagik Tsarukyan would do what Serzh Sargsyan
demanded at the meeting of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia
(RPA)," Mr Hakobyan said.
The demand was satisfied, and the new status was legalized. Mr
Tsarukyan retires from politics, but remains a businessman - not an
influential oligarch, but a big businessman.
Mr Arshakyan welcomes Mr Tsarukyan's decision.
"I am glad that a woman politician was nominated, especially Naira
Zohrabyan, who has been well known to the public for a long period,"
he said.
Mr Tsarukyan declined this way thus enabling his party to embark
on an alternative way - one that would not pose a threat to his
fellow-countrymen's security.
"A new course, new people and a new program. But it should be an
alternative program, the one that has been on the agenda until now,"
Mr Arshakyan said.
Mr Tsarukyan retired from politics at the right moment.
"The program the Prosperous Armenia party has implemented for the past
two months was a dangerous way. If a man announces his intention to
go to snap elections to root out the evil authorities, it means that
he has rejected this way," Mr Arshakyan said.
According to Mr Safaryan, Mr Tsarukyan has retired from politics
forever.
"I can be said with confidence because he has placed himself outside
his own party and states he is not going to have anything in common
with it any longer."
Asked if Mr Tsarukyan was to be expected to make such a decision,
Mr Safaryan said:
"Mr Tsarukyan was facing numerous risks, without reckoning with all
of them. In this respect, he was certainly expected to make such
a decision."
With respect to the Prosperous Armenia party itself, Mr Safaryan said
that the task is to cause the party to re-take its course of 2007.
"That is, there must be a political force that could be critical of
the ruling party, without posing a threat to it."
http://www.tert.am/en/news/2015/03/06/tsarukiancomments/1608933
From: Baghdasarian