Epress.am News from Armenia
The most significant result of the first 100 days of RA Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamyan's (pictured) term in office is that protest demonstrations and resignation demands have eased in Yerevan, reports local daily Haykakan Zhamanak, noting that of course this might be explained by the summer heat and the closure of the political season.
"But there might be a completely different explanation: just that in the position of parliamentary speaker Hovik Abrahamyan had his modest contribution to the rise in tension. For this he had a valid reason — the increasing tension over the years between him and former prime minister Tigran Sargsyan had to reach an outcome.
"This doesn't mean, of course, that he was organizing those protests or discussions. This means that he was doing that which depended on him for those discussions to receive as broad a political response as possible. As a result, the resignation of prime minister Tigran Sargsyan became inevitable because uniting against him were not only the four non-ruling political parties, but also Hovik Abrahamyan with his parliamentary support," reports the paper.
The newspaper stresses that after Tigran Sargsyan's resignation, there was nothing left in the magic, the target zone. "Ahead is the political autumn, and it will be apparent only during the autumn how merged the four non-ruling parties and Hovik Abrahamyan are and whether they're merged at all," concludes the paper.