STRIKING SIMILARITY
Aram Abrahamian
Aravot.am
25 May 06
When two persons fight and pass all limits of human ethics, it is
amusing for large mass of people. When two oppositionists fight
authorities rejoice over it because the fighters are compromised and
the authority finds itself in ” white gauntlets”. So responsible TV
Companies would like to broadcast ”NU”-OEP mutual curses all day long
with a very clear pretext; ”Shame on you”. But in favor of justice we
should say that Artashes Geghamian provoked that unpleasant quarrel,
consequently if it is spoken about “concert on demand”, the ”NU”
leader plays the first violin here.
But each occasion can’t have only a reason, there are more. The
severest and terrible struggle is carried in the same type as it is in
nature. On that case the OEP and ”NU” have a lot of similarities. It
has been spoken a lot about their contacts with Serge Sargsian. Next
interesting similarity is the ”leadership” which reaches to the
cult of personality. It is excluded that any deputy from the OEP
or ”NU” makes a speech and not cite any ingenious thought or
action of his leader. I’m inclined to relate it not to the ideology
of the party but morbid ambitions of the leaders. There are more
authoritarian political powers in our country but I’ve never heard
its representatives to say constantly “as comrade Vahan mentioned in
his speech”, “as predicted comrade Tovmasian”. By the way the complex
of stressing their own person makes Geghamian and Baghdasarian answer
to every critic striking a fatal blow.
But there is also a global reason. Vazgen Manoukian rightly noticed
that places in the opposition were unlimitted; each person can declare
himself as the opposition. Instead sources for the opposition are
too limited. Mr. Geghamian has improved his English lately, made some
reverences to the West and could pretend to the assistance of the West.
Certainly both of them won’t be come the RAPresident in 2008. But
the point isn’t becoming the president but earning money.
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