Today the Armenian National Congress will hold a demonstration in the Freedom square of Yerevan, which is the first one since the recent parliamentary election and ANC first seats in the parliament. This demonstration of the ANC will be in a different environment, in which the ANC’s demonstration is more artificial event than a political event. The demonstration would become a political event if the ANC would give up on the seats in the parliament. However, the last week with the parliamentary sessions showed that the ANC’s MPs feel comfortable in the parliament and have nothing more to say anywhere else than in the parliament. Especially after asking and answering questions with the prime-minister of a government, which they claim “have violated elections and are cleptocratic” and they have been struggling against. However, the ANC representatives may bring a thousand reasons why they should be in the parliament, and these reasons will be good explanation from oratory but not political point of view. Definitely the only intrigue of today’s demonstration is the attitude and more specific policy of the ANC toward the PA. After all the praising speech in favor of PA representative Vartan Oskanyan, the joint interview with him on May 6 the ANC’s leader Levon Ter-Petrosyan will have to comment on the criminal case against Oskanyan and the PA decision not to join the coalition. Those comments will definitely be in the framework of the logic that “the government is intimidating on Oskanyan with political reasons and the PA’s decision not to join the coalition is cracking this government.” In fact the only person in the ANC that publicly speaks against this opinion is Nikol Pashinyan, who speaks in the name of a group of ANC activists who do not want to share the way with the PA. Notwithstanding Ter-Petrosyan’s expectations to make the governmental pyramid weaker due to the games with the PA, that governmental party is becoming a test for the ANC’s unity and loyalty to their movement.
