According to well-informed sources of information, the authorities are actively working on establishing a “joint opposition” or “third power” as they have planned long before. According to their tentative scenario, they are going to unite three traditional political parties – the ARF, RAK, SDHK and Heritage parties. According to our information the SDHK has rejected to join this plan and the government is actively working to press on this political party to work for them. Prime minister Tigran Sargsyan is the one responsible for the implementation of this plan. Last week he met with the secretary of the SDHK board Sargis Achemyan, who was in Armenia on a visit. It is worth mentioning that in the past Tigran Sargsyan was able to divide the HRAK and establish a new political party from it, which was named Armenia-RAK. They have already solved the problem of involving the ARF and Heritage in this format and now they have to convince the SDHK. According t our information, Achemyan has agreed to join the mentioned political powers and promised to mobilize the powers, however the Armenian office of this party, which is a part of the Armenian National Congress, is against this decision. The secretary of the Armenian office of the SDHK Lyudmila Sargsyan told our reporter that they are against any possibility of cooperating with the authorities and did not reject the rumors that they had received such suggestion from a traditional party. According to our information, Achemyan has promised to the prime minister to reach this goal of cooperation by all means. By the way, according to the same source of information, this new opposition force will be sponsored by businessman Barsegh Beglaryan. It is hard to say whether the authorities will be able to establish this fake opposition or no. It is not excluded that they may fire Lyudmila Sargsyan from the party (as the Heritage recently did with some people) and recruit someone with active appearance to demonstrate pro-opposition appearance to the external world. With such policy the authorities are proving that they don’t give a damn about the Diaspora, joint power, and national unity as they say and assure in their speeches, especially on the day of the Genocide commemoration.
