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After signing the coalition declaration yesterday, the Armenian president finds himself in a degrading position, said publicist Tigran Paskevichyan at a press conference in Yerevan today.
“Even after [Prosperous Armenia party leader] Gagik Tsarukyan signed the coalition declaration containing Serzh Sargsyan’s name, I think that the person occupying the position of president of the Republic of Armenia is in a demoralized position,” he said.
In Paskevichyan’s opinion, if HHK (the Republican Party of Armenia led by Sargsyan) and BHK (Prosperous Armenia) “were a political team, such an issue wouldn’t have arose.” In reality, though, according to the publicist, such a situation has been created: “It’s true, everything’s not well; it’s true, everything’s not as it should be; you’re not a good president, but we’re forced to sign the coalition declaration.”
Paskevichyan stressed he has a “very accurate and negative attitude” toward second president Robert Kocharian, but, according to him, such a thing wouldn’t have been possible during Kocharian’s term as president. In his opinion, such a request coming so soon is the result of an atmosphere of fear.
“I think it was connected to the situation in the Middle East. And experience shows that the situation in the Middle East spreads in a chain reaction, and that could also reach Armenia,” he said.
Analyst Ardzrun Pepanyan, in turn, said that the Republican Party of Armenia and the Prosperous Party cannot move Armenia forward, even if they had such a wish.
“They’re mainly business clubs,” he said, expressing a wish that the BKH-HHK unity didn’t exist. “As a result, Serzh Sargsysan, it seems, won, but the Armenian nation lost the chance for two ‘poles’ [related opposites] in government to move forward, and if there was also the opposition as another pole, and rules of the game were established among these three, it would be easier,” he said.