ARTHUR BAGHDASARYAN NOT TO BECOME SAHAKASHVILI

Panorama.am
16:33 17/05/06

According to forecasts NA deputy Hmaiak Hovhannisyan, political
scientist, Arthur Baghdasaryan will not become Sahakashvili because
Robert Kocharyan is not Leonid Kuchma or Eduard Shevardnadze. To H.
Hovhannisyan, R. Kocharyan’s image reminds him of Yeltsin. Those
political forces that left the ruling power during Yeltsin’s governance
never won next elections. Thus far, Hovhannisyan predictions
were realistic so we may expect that Arthur Baghdasaryan cannot
have considerable success either in 2007 or in 2008. Hovhannisyan
predicted 6 months ago that Orinats Yerkir will withdraw from the
ruling coalition and Sergo Yeritsian, second person in the party,
will leave the party the first. As we see Hovhannisyan was not wrong.

Predicting possible outcomes for the upcoming elections, the
deputy told a news conference today that Republicans will come up
as “a super party” which the president does not want. According to
Hovhannisyan’s forecasts, Serj Sargsyan will become the prime minister
after economically guided 2007 elections.