The campaign struggle going on at the #44 poll in Yeghvard went badly.
It just showed that the political elite is not doing so well. The fact
that deputies try to “reach mountains” just for one mandate. If it
continues like this, the people will no longer elect, but rather,
appoint. The “master” of appointing is none other than Robert
Kocharyan. The arguments between Artur Baghdasaryan and chief
prosecutor Aghvan Hovsepyan ended with the intervening of Robert
Kocharyan which favored the Orinats Yerkir (Lawful Land) political
party. Even Ara Hayrapetyan’s wish to become a republican,
orinatsyerkiryan or a federalist did not come true.
There had been affirmations from the president’s office that there
would be no shady methods used, however, the people went to vote with
the sense of being fooled. Even the police officers had no active
participation in the elections. For some reason, the taxing, criminal
acts department and the staff of the state registration department all
combined together to form election committees.
As time goes by, the opinions stated by former speaker of the European
Union Parliamentary Congress on the Karabagh conflict Terry Davis get
worse. The insights about the conflicts taking place within the
coalition and the increase in conflicts due to the development of the
Karabagh peace settlement seem to correspond to reality. Since the vice
speaker of the National Assembly and republican Tigran Torosyan did not
make a big deal and did not consider Davis’s speech legal, the
representative of the Supreme Body of the Armenian Revolutionary
Federation(ARF) Armen Rustamyan warns that we are dealing with a speech
that is anti-Armenian and dangerous for the Karabagh conflict.
Rustamyan also blamed the Armenian delegation of the EU in not being
able to present Karabaghs’ strategies. The arrow points at leader of
the delegation Tigran Torosyan. Let’s say that Davis’s speech has
already been read in the president’s office. According to facts, Armen
Rustamyan has made Tigran Torosyan not too pleasing for the president.
There have been rumors spreading about substituting Rustamyan for
Tigran Torosyan. However, there is a very slight chance that the
president will take that step. The Karabagh peace settlement is being
solved within the framework of international structures and it doesn’t
need the contradictions between coalition members. Otherwise, it will
have to resist both the international ties and the coalition members.
As for the opposition, at the present it is not threatening the authorities. Besides, there is nothing to worry about that side.