ORINATS YERKIR GIVES WAY TO SHADE FIGURES

Lragir.am
17 May 06

Member of Parliament Hmayak Hovanisyan thinks that Speaker Arthur
Baghdasaryan resigned and seceded from the coalition because he imposed
his candidacy to president on his coalition colleagues. There was
nothing the coalition could do but to hope that Arthur Baghdasaryan
would repent. This did not happen. “If Arthur Baghdasaryan had not
stated twice that in case of disagreement he would secede from the
coalition, the other steps would not follow.

Arthur Baghdasaryan was careless enough to reveal his calculations,
enabling his coalition colleagues to take steps in advance.”

Hmayak Hovanisyan reminds that the president was placed in a difficult
situation by the Republican Party which defined Robert Kocharyan’s
statement as “a call for war” and by the Armenian Revolutionary
Federation with their statement on genetic incompatibility with
the Turks. However, at that time no such steps were taken because
Dashnaktsutiun and the Republican Party were reluctant to secede from
the coalition. Hmayak Hovanisyan says the secession of Orinats Yerkir
from the coalition does not fit Robert Kocharyan’s plans. Robert
Kocharyan, who would not like to give the position of the speaker
of the National Assembly to the Republican, will have to give
away, for there is nothing he can do, “the situation developed too
fast.” Hmayak Hovanisyan is said to have disapproved the decision
of Orinats Yerkir to secede from the coalition, he had even tried
to warn the other members of the coalition to prevent them. However,
they did not listen to Hmayak. In his undertaking Hmayak Hovanisyan
is not driven by his affection for Orinats Yerkir, but cool-headed
calculations. “The process of ousting Orinats Yerkir from power goes
along a process of becoming engaged in power, which shows that the
connection between the political and business elites has grown into
fusion, and the business elite will no longer be subjected to political
figures and will not act in the political sphere on the instructions
of political figures; it will act directly. Arthur Baghdasaryan is
a bearer of qualities typical of a public political figure. If he
is ousted, he will be replaces by people who are devoid of these
qualities, which is a tragedy for our country.”

Many are encouraged because they believe that if Arthur Baghdasaryan
quits, he will give way to them to the pro-Western’s niche.

Hmayak Hovanisyan is not encouraged by this. Hmayak Hovanisyan,
like Arthur Baghdasaryan, would like Armenia to become more deeply
integrated with NATO and the European organizations.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress