IT IS POSSIBLE TO UNDERSTAND RATS ABANDONING THE SHIP
Lragir.am
16 May 06
On May 16 oppositionist Grigor Harutiunyan and pro-governmental Rafik
Petrosyan debated the reason and consequences of secession of the
Orinats Yerkir Party from the coalition.
Of course, deviations during the debate prevailed over the topic.
Grigor Harutiunyan once again announced that “the Karabakh clan led
by Robert Kocharyan, which has absolutely nothing to do with the
people of Karabakh, and mostly includes Armenians, tampered votes,
plundered the state property,” etc. Rafik Petrosyan, naturally,
disagreed, “We created the coalition to build Armenia.”
With regard to the problems the Orinats Yerkir Party is facing
Doctor Rafik Petrosyan stated that “it is possible to understand
the rats abandoning the ship. They pursue their interests, they
want to remain in power. The National Assembly is a roof; they want
to be protected.” As one who received a high mark for one’s own
invention, Grigor Harutiunyan reacted immediately, “It means that
I am right. There is a clan system in Armenia, and it is the clan
that determines politics, not the political forces.” In other words,
the businessmen became members of Orinats Yerkir formally to enter
the National Assembly. Exactly like Rafik Petrosyan’s son.
“After becoming member of Orinats Yerkir in 2003 my son has not had
any relations with the party.” Probably, in the nearest future he
will secede from the Orinats Yerkir Party if he has not seceded yet,
the son of Rafik Petrosyan; thereby the father secures the son. In the
nearest future it will become clear where Rafik Petrosyan’s son will
appear, and the father is against accession of those members of the
Orinats Yerkir Party who left the party, like rats abandon the ship,
to the Republican.
The speakers admit that the phenomenon of rats abandoning the ship
is typical of the Armenian reality, and all the political parties,
which have lost or have not lost power, are facing it. Moreover,
Rafik Petrosyan assures that the political parties Bargavach Hayastan
and Miavorum Hanun Hayastani are attempting at winning over the
Republicans. “Nobody has left yet,” says Rafik Petrosyan.