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.<\/p>\n
“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.<\/p>\n
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.”<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
“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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
“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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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