The format and tactics of announcements about nomination of prosperous Armenia party candidate Samvel Balasanyan in Gyumri shows that the PA tends to be an alternative power. Earlier it was reported that Samvel Balasanyan had visited the president’s office, which was followed by an announcement on the part of the PA party to endorse Balasanyan’s candidacy for Gyumri’s mayoral election. In fact this is the formula, based on which the relations between the RPA and PA parties are built. Whatever the PA does to imitate it doing something different, the decision-maker is the president’s administration, and in fact the president’s team is the one to decide whether the PA should nominate a candidate for high rank positions. That is the reason why the PA’s chairman Gagik Tsarukyan did not want to nominate MP Martun Grigoryan for the mayor’s position, but Savel Balasanyan, a former member of the Legal State party (there was time he used to announce that the sign of Legal State party was written on his forehead). This politician resigned from the LS as a result of consultations with the president’s office, and he did the same before joining the PA as well. The PA claims to be an alternative to the ruling power, which uses that opportunity to get rid of the representatives of their power with old thinking and methods. As elections are coming up, this method will be tested in the second largest city of Armenia, and if it is success, it can be utilized in the other regions of Armenia as well. All these and related processes are happening in the logic of the upcoming presidential election 2013. If this is the case with these two parties, the big question is for who these candidates will work during the upcoming presidential election. Everyone knows the answer to this question. It is also interesting to see the behavior of the ANC in this process. A while ago the ANC coordinator Levon Zurabyan announced that during the local government elections the ANC might endorse not all coalition powers’ candidates. The ANC may certainly find reasons to justify their refusal to endorse the candidate of the PA in Gyumri. We wonder what will be the reaction of the ANC if the PA’s candidate for presidency endorsed by them goes to the president’s office for consultation too.
