The recent demonstration of the Armenian National Congress and the speech of its leader Levon Ter-Petrosyan show that the demonstration was not done for the purpose of mobilizing the society to restore the constitutional order but deliver the messages of the government, which they believe is opposition, to the external world. Or, otherwise it can be called as “a demonstration in favor of Prosperous Armenia party”. Ter-Petrosyan is flattering with the PA, and these messages are one-sided and without any answer, and even the excellent knowledge of the Armenian language is not enough for Ter-Petrosyan to praise the PA. Even he does not see Kocharyan on the top of the PA. “Kocharyan is under the heavy load of the murders and terror of October 27 and March 1 and is the most frightened man in Armenia,” said Levon Ter-Petrosyan, who had forgotten about his announcement in the past that on March 1 some of the people that shoot civilians participating in the demonstration were Gagik Tsarukyan’s guards. In a word, Ter-Petrosyan’s strategy is basing on the syndrome of self-delusion. If one is able to forget its foe’s sins (they alleged that those were the worst sins), he/she is also able to forget everything. However, forgetting about that thing Ter-Petrosyan stays loyal to his announcement following March 1, when he said in answer to a question that whether he might cooperate with Robert Kocharyan that nothing was excluded. By the way, when the ANC is trying to praise the PA and try to bring the PA to the opposition sector, it is not only inviting the PA into the opposition, but also pushing the ANC into the sector where the PA is. According to Ter-Petrosyan, the latter is opposition, even though is afraid to say that. The ANC is also opposition. Maybe Ter-Petrosyan wants to identify the ANC with the PA as two opposition powers so that his friend’s son can be minister too, his loyalists can become governors and other officials as well. Those who are trying to see Kocharyan and the PA with their own eyes, those who are trying to keep the eyes wide open, are blamed to be traitors for serving the government. As a result, the only thing Ter-Petrosyan has been able to demolish is the institute of plurality of opinions, as a result of which the ANC, which became stronger on the wave of the people’s movement, has become a one-man theatre. Certainly this process has other external factors and reasons, which are not directly expressed in Ter-Petrosyan’s speech. Definitely the only person that can give the best and exact answer to those questions about the reasons is Smbat Karakhanyan, the head of the Union club of Moscow.
