REPUBLICANS KNOW THEY HAVE NO VOTES AND NEVER HAD

Lragir.am
01 June 06

The government failed to have the National Assembly vote for the bill
on accountability of businessmen for tax evasion. The present coalition
no longer holds the majority in the parliament, but the reason for
the failure of the bill was neither this nor the aspiration of the
parliamentarians to achieve lawfulness in the economic sphere. The
president is said to have been forced by the recent home political
developments to take fundamental measures to keep control over the
situation. The fiasco of the government and namely the Republican was
a show conveying to the Republican Party and the prime minister that
they no longer have political influence.

By the way, an unprecedented opinion poll ordered by the Republican
Party and Serge Sargsyan in 2003, which has aroused a tremendous
retrospective interest among politicians and journalists, suggested
that the rating of the Republican-Serge Sargsyan alliance was below
5 percent. Nevertheless, this alliance held the majority in the
parliament. By the way, the same survey confirms that the collapse of
the coalition was not out of order. The same survey suggests that the
rating and the votes the Orinats Yerkir Party got were consistent,
and under the Republican the votes of Ardarutiun Alliance were
seized. Hence, the news in press that Andranik Margaryan is looking
for support for future is not just for fun.