Politics

Tigran Sargsyan to serve as the RPA’s pre-election campaign headquarter manager

07.06.2012

Since the parliamentary elections the political powers are waiting to see what the new government will be like. In fact most of all the political powers and governmental powers are interested in it because ultimately citizens do not care who will be in the new government because it will not change anything. Political powers that …

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Stab in the back

07.06.2012

“The parliament has not been elected, but it has been formed and it was formed according to certain standards, and those standards are not good for me as a person and politician. It is very logical that after being elected MP of the fifth convocation of the National Assembly I dropped my mandate,” said the …

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In whose favor will the situation change?

06.06.2012

After the parliamentary elections the change of positions in the governmental elite has been partially solved. It was confirmed who would be the 131 MPs in the legislative. And on May 31 they elected the new chair of parliament and deputy-chairs. The process of arrangements will come to an end within 10 days or so …

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Hmayak’s options

06.06.2012

“The PAP statement didn’t have a single clause, which would say that the party will nominate its own candidate,” during yesterday’s press conference said Hmayak Hovhannisyan, chair of the political scientists’ union of Armenia, number nine on PAP’s proportional list, who dropped down his mandate. For this reason and more, according to Hovhannisyan the party …

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Diversity march

03.06.2012

Today is the first day of the fifth convocation of the Armenian parliament. Many of the 131 MPs visited the Central electoral Commission to take their mandates. The others, as a rule, do not dare to take part in such public events and have taken their documents through their representatives. These people that did not …

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With a Vertu?

31.05.2012

According to our information, the leader of the PAP Gagik Tsarukyan had a very hard time trying to persuade the president of the union of political scientists Hmayak Hovhannisyan to drop out from the PAP list. Let us remember that this came out about a week ago in the media as though President Serzh Sargsyan …

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Constructive opposition

31.05.2012

After the statement of the leader of the Prosperous Armenia Party Gagik Tsarukyan about not joining the ruling coalition the term “constructive opposition” returned to the Armenian political terminology. After the statement of Tsarukyan and the opinions voiced by various political parties the PAP was seemingly declared as a constructive opposition. By doing so, they …

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Big break

31.05.2012

Indeed, the statement of the PAP was a big surprise. They stated that “the party doesn’t find it expedient to join the ruling coalition.” This was a real victory for the people, who gave their votes to the PAP. But our reality works in a way that doesn’t give any value to the votes and …

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Politics sounds like music

28.05.2012

“Even though the conflict continues to be unresolved, I think Armenia’s decision not to participate in Eurovision song contest was wrong. This is a music event but not political gestures,” says Azerbaijan’s foreign affairs Elmar Mamediarov in his comments concerning Eurovision published in The Wall Street Journal. Even though in this publication he petitioned not …

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How much they have changed

28.05.2012

According to preliminary information, in the new parliament 45 out of the 69 MPs of the RPA faction are businessmen. Mostly their businesses are registered in the names of their wives, brothers or other relatives, but this does not change the things. In fact the above said means that Serzh Sargsyan’s promise to separate the …

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