At least the first stage of the inter-governmental contradictions may be considered completed with the evident victory of the RPA over the PA. The evidence of that is yesterday’s interview to one of the online sources (by the way, it has become a working style for some political parties to respond to certain statements through online sources and certain circles draw exact conclusions from that). “Our ambitions are very logical and predictable – at least maintain PA’s current level of representation in the parliament and to attempt to attain more,” said Tsarukyan as a response to the question of the reporter, “What are PA’s goals and ambitions for the coming parliamentary elections?” Tsarukyan blasted those reports, accusing “certain media outlets” of spreading lies. “I think that our politicians, media and society in general have long been able to tell real processes from made-up campaigns,” he said. “Again, it is very logical that the PA likewise will work toward maintaining the current level of representation and attaining more. And in general, we announced our common goals several months ago and signed a memorandum in February, stating that with our active steps we will enhance the ruling coalition’s role in our country and, as a result of the 2012 parliamentary elections, we will earn our parties greater representation in the National Assembly,” Tsarukyan stated. Talk of the government pressure on the PA intensified last week after Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan said that political forces failing to cooperate with the presidential RPA would “end up empty-handed.” Although he did not name those forces, the remarks were construed by many local commentators as a stern warning to Tsarukyan. Therefore, Tsarukyan, who after the February declaration was claiming that they were going to strive for “50+1” votes, yesterday pointed out that they wished to maintain the current representation in the NA or in general try to strive for more. It means that the PA accepted the dominance of the RPA and now they are going to do everything to reach the “common goals.” The next stage of the RPA-PA collision or the “next lesson” as Tsarukyan likes to mention, will most probably end when he will once again quote the agreement of the PA ratified in the declaration about the willingness of the PA to endorse Serzh Sargsyan candidacy. By the way, yesterday’s interview of Tsarukyan had one more target. He actually refused the long run collaboration with the ANC leader Levon Ter-Petrosyan. The latter referred to this cooperation in October during the ANC rally of last Friday, by mentioning that after getting seats in the parliament ANC will join other political forces to demand the President’s impeachment. Yesterday, in fact, Tsarukyan made them understand that they can’t hope for the PA support. By the way, there is another interesting detail. This statement of Tsarukyan is made after Robert Kocharyan’s visit to Moscow and his return.
