While waiting for the agenda

As it was expected, the ruling majority of the National Assembly yesterday failed the initiative of the non-governmental parties to establish an ad hoc to examine the gas agreement. As usual it was done without any explanation. It is hard to say what practical result this ad hoc would bring.

Of course, in the event of creation of the ad hoc the opposition would in a more substantiated manner present the negative consequences of the gas agreement, the criminal initiative of accumulating 300 million USD debt. As a result, they might have even prepared some kind of report. Even besides the opposition examination it would be enough to launch big criminal cases against the ones, who initiated this deal based on the report presented by the government.

In the existence of the current government the creation of an ad hoc would be a total waste of time. Of course, everybody knows this. The opposition threatened to create an ad hoc, otherwise they would go out on the street and include broad public in their protests. But the government accepted neither the demand nor the threat. As of yesterday, none of these political parties have been in the Liberty Square.

When speaking to the media the opposition parties said that after the denial to create the ad hoc the government would have to resign. But even if hypothetically the government resigns it doesn’t mean that the 300 million USD will be annulled and the gas agreement will be cancelled. Of course not. In this matter, even the resignation of the government wouldn’t save the situation because both the gas agreement and the 300 million are auxiliaries to the Customs Union and for the majority of our opposition speaking against the Customs Union resembles Serzh Sargsyan criticism in relation to Prosperous Armenia.

The government is well aware of this and that is why they don’t care either about the opposition demand or the threat. The government perfectly knows who wouldn’t go to the Liberty Square despite their statements. Currently the only key of resolving the problems of Armenia is on the street. These problems cannot be solved in the parliament. They are to be solved by the broad public demand and agenda. But for the opposition the street is not as much a tool for change of government but a bargaining tool with the government.