Nikol Pashinyan formerly urged “it’s enough of Gagization,” now he closely cooperates with the PAP. During a conversation with www.aravot.am, we inquired from Aram Karapetyan, the leader of the New Times Party (NTP), whether there were controversies between these two. According to Mr. Karapetyan’s assessment, it is a paradox, “Of [...]
I don’t like, when I quote myself beating the chest “what an accurate prediction I have made.” This time, however, I yield to the temptation; I wrote in my notes dated April 25, “I have no doubts that the RPA and the PAP will form an alliance after the election. I don’t even bet just humanely – why should I use people’s naivety?” (http://www.aravot.am/en/2012/04/25/63327/) Now, when it is almost 99-percent clear that the coalition of the previous convocation will be maintained in its former shape, I must note that it didn’t require being a big fortune-teller to predict that. I just want to ask credulous people not to take what politicians say for gospel, particularly when those are said before an election. For example, before the 2008 presidential election, Levon Ter-Petrossian, the first president and a candidate for president, said that if Serzh Sargsyan became the president, all oligarchs would become homeless. We can assert 4 years after that neither Gagik Tsarukyan, nor Ruben Hayrapetyan, nor Samvel Alexanyan has become homeless; on the contrary, they have multiplied their wealth. Didn’t the first president know that there would be no making homeless? Certainly, he did. However, what he said, as it is commonly called today, was a message – I will take care of you better than my opponent. Oligarchs didn’t believe that message.
Or the Cabinet has been talking about a technopark, a financial center, a north-south stream, an oil pipeline since the autumn of the same year. It turned out after 4 years that they have just laid the foundation of all that and the technopark is just a few labs and the financial center is moving the Central Bank to Dilijan. And generally, the global financial crisis impedes all that. Well, something always bothers a bad dancer. However, when the Cabinet officials said such things, they certainly knew quite well that there would be no “economic miracle.” They just needed to distract our, citizens’ attention or perhaps mind.
Different representatives of the Prosperous Armenia Party governing body stated earlier that they would convey the official opinion of the party on the results of the May 6 parliamentary election and would make it public after the final results of the election were published. On Sunday, the Central Election Commission [...]
It is obvious that political forces have started to prepare for the presidential election to take place next year from today and the allocation that is there in the parliament should be
perceived from that very perspective. First of all, about the possible coalitions. The worst scenario will be, if the Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP) joins the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) and the Rule of Law Party (RLP). It will be bad, because the parliament will continue playing the role of a hole punch and bills proposed by the Cabinet will not go through any “legislative examination.” Extreme stagnation will not do our country any good. It is not a bad scenario, if the PAP joins the Armenian National Congress (ANC) and endorses Levon Ter-Petrossian’s candidacy in the upcoming election. However, such a scenario is not very probable not so much because Gagik Tsarukyan and other PAP businessmen’s businesses will be under threat. However, in that case, the Congress will be compelled not to say anything bad about Robert Kocharyan and the latter must not criticize the first president and the years of his rule in the framework of that agreement. Although such a 180-degree turn is possible, but at the moment, it is hard to imagine. The optimal scenario is the following – the PAP doesn’t join anyone and acts independently from the position of constructive opposition. It tries to fix, normalize relations, if necessary, with the other three opposition parties and sometimes also tries to torpedo the bills proposed by the Cabinet. The more it is difficult for the Cabinet to work with the National Assembly, the higher the quality of laws will be. And the Prosperous Armenia Party will decide within a year which of the three presidents to endorse or perhaps to nominate Mr. Oskanian.
“The PAP expects 100% votes of those who are going to vote for the PAP. It is important that 100% of those who will vote for use will be reflected in the reports as a result. What percentages other forces will ensure and at whose expense is their problem. However, [...]
Gagik Tsarukyan, the president of the National Olympic Committee of Armenia (ARMNOC), asked journalists at the end of the meeting with representatives of the world of sports to leave him with the sportsmen and coaches for some time to talk about a few professional issues. And before the journalists left [...]
Styopa Safaryan, the Heritage Party parliamentary group leader, explained their decision of leaving the joint staff also by another fact, saying that the Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP) leader Gagik Tsarukyan, finding out that the Heritage Party wanted the party leaders to sign the document, had said that the Heritage Party [...]
I am not afraid of Serzh Sargsyan’s, I am not afraid of Levon Ter-Petrossian’s rule. I don’t see anything awful, if Raffi Hovhannisyan, Gagik Tsarukyan or Vartan Oskanian become the President. They will certainly rule in different manners, but, being rational people, not having pathological inclinations, they will try to maintain the internal stability and consent. The only man, whose rule I fear, is Robert Kocharyan. I am not afraid for myself personally, but at least, two events took place during that president’s rule – October 27 and March 1 – which threw back our country’s progress for a few years twice. None of the above-mentioned figures would have allowed that. The first president can be honestly offended, if someone doesn’t think like him, the current president will try to convince that person that he is right. When the second president sees that someone doesn’t agree with him, he just instinctively grabs the pistol. Under conditions of the same regime, there is a difference in characters and the traits of Robert Kocharyan’s character can be dangerous for the country. If my respectable friends from the Armenian National Congress (ANC) contribute to that willingly or unwillingly, it seems to me they are making a mistake.
Today, in response to a question of www.aravot.am how he would explain that Levon Ter-Petrossian had formerly tried to end the process of “PAP-ization” (Prosperous Armenia Party) and “RPA-ization” (Republican Party of Armenia), now they talked only about RPA-ization and flattered the PAP, Hmayak Hovhannisyan, the president of the Union [...]
“If Mr. Tsarukyan propagandizes self-assuredly for his party and is left alone in his polling station, it doesn’t bring him any glory and has an impact on his reputation,” Anahit Bakhshyan, a Heritage MP, said during a conversation with www.aravot.am talking about the candidacy withdrawals of candidates for MP. Let [...]
The criticisms made by Vartan Oskanian, a former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia, of the current government, have already become a rule. www.aravot.am inquired from Eduard Sharmazanov, the Republican Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly, whether they merely aimed at propaganda or perhaps Vartan Oskanian had [...]
“The Heritage Party is too small to demand,” Gagik Tsarukyan, the Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP) leader, said, in response to a question of www.aravot.am what he thought about the demand of the Heritage Party that the party leaders had to necessarily sign the agreement on establishing a joint staff for [...]
Gagik Tsarukyan, the leader of the Prosperous Armenia Party, invited good working women of the party to a restaurant in Charbakh and entertained them very well. R. Galstyan, one of the participants in the party, told www.aravot.am about that. In her words, Mr. Tsarukyan even danced with participants on that [...]
“I will not say unnecessary things, I will say what we will do. Everyone prates. I follow the election campaign too, there is much fairy tale,” Gagik Tsarukyan, the leader of the Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP) stated during a meeting in Nor Hachn. www.aravot.am inquired from Mr. Tsarukyan which party [...]
In response to a question of www.aravot.am whether Vartan Oskanian, the former Minister of Foreign Affairs presently being in the second place on the Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP) list, had expressed the official opinion of the PAP yesterday on Radio Liberty, Khachik Galstyan, Gagik Tsarukyan’s press secretary, said, “Certainly, no. [...]
“I don’t think that this is also the opinion of the PAP, because the PAP has never taken such a stance during the past years. If they had taken such a position, the party, certainly, wouldn’t have remained in the coalition. We have cooperated very well and we share the [...]
The United Armenians Party has also registered for the parliamentary election on May 6 – its name, not to mention, its activities are not known to many people. The only information about the mentioned party’s pre-election activities is that the party has made public a list of 26 candidates for [...]
“I am not going to sue Rule of Law Party leader Artur Baghdasaryan for stealing cattle, since stealing cattle is a very common thing for our political reality,” this statement was made by Hmayak Hovhannisyan, the head of the People’s Agro-Industrial Union parliamentary group on June 20, 2002, describing in [...]
“I state for the last time for all those people who spread absolute nonsense about my personality I am ‘no one’s man’ and more so, I don’t have and cannot have any connection with people who base their relations with others not on morality, but on their own interest,” Tigran [...]
“They have numbered people and you congratulate. What reason for congratulation is there? I don’t attach any importance to that. I hate that numbering,” Hmayak Hovhannisyan, the president of the Union of Political Scientists of the Republic of Armenia, responded in this manner to congratulations on taking the 9th passing [...]
