Serzh Sargsyan has one chance for victory
“Armenia has long ceased to be a great Armenian state. Today in Russia there are more Armenians than in Armenia,” yesterday during the meeting with journalists stated a member of Karabakh committee Ashot Manucharyan and added that soon Armenia will become the third country as in the US and Canada the number of Armenians is increasing. When speaking of Armenia’s internal political situation, he found the fragmentation of the Armenian opposition unacceptable by meaning the collective force of Raffi Hovhannisian, ANC and Sardarapat movement. “People are more or less following these groups. Others don’t have any support base. They just have supporters,” he said. Let’s also mention that Manucharyan considers the joint efforts of these groups the most important political task in the aspect of resolving the Armenian issues. He indeed didn’t bypass the rumors about Raffi Hovhannisian. And in this context he didn’t ignore NKR MP Vahan Badasyan, who joined Raffi Hovhannisian. “In principle, they cannot lose in Yerevan. Yerevan is the capital of Armenia. And Raffi Hovhannisian besides being a person with positive and negative traits, including Vahan Badasyan are symbolic characters. One is representing the Diaspora and the other NKR.”
The Diaspora is not represented virtually, but is right here to overcome the challenges that exist here. Whether he is doing great or no, he symbolically fights for the sake of Armenia,” said Manucharyan. According to him, symbols are leading the process, and the people should win as a result of the process, otherwise catastrophic for the country. Manucharyan says president Serzh Sargsyan has an important role too as the authorities should support that victory, i.e. people should have the feeling that they are ruling. “Serzh Sargsyan has one opportunity to win, which is through helping people to stand on the ground firmly and make him do what they want; there is no other way,” said Ashot Manucharyan.
Journalists asked Mr. Manucharyan to comment on Levon Ter-Petrosyan’s speech at ANC general meeting on April 13, in which the latter spoke about bourgeois-democratic revolution, i.e. separating oligarchs from the power, and said that in 2008 Khachatur Sukiasyan had been an oligarch too, but later he joined the people’s movement. During this speech Ter-Petrosyan also said that PA chairman Gagik Tsarukyan had chosen the same path. In answer to a question what similarities there may be between Gagik Tsarukyan and Khachatur Sukiasyan he said, “There is no sense to compare them as oligarchs because all oligarchs are the same. As human beings, you know, one of them is fat and the other one is thin.”
“What we have is a cluster of national oligarchy; we have ‘Republican,’ ‘Prosperous’ and ‘Rule of Law’ oligarchic clusters. People should understand that these three clusters should not even stand close to the authorities. If there is an oligarch in a party, the participation of such party in any event forming government should be viewed as state revolution, because those with financial interests should not have influence on the governmental power; such influence demolishes the statehood, like it is being done with Armenia now. I discovered the main mechanism of demolishing Armenia; and this mechanism works for Yerevan too. Yerevan is governed by oligarchs too,” said Ashot Manucharyan.
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