FOR WHO AND AGAINST WHO SERGE SARGSYAN WILL BE DOING EVERYTHING?
Lragir.am
24 July 06
"Dear Republicans, our cooperation went a long way, and despite the
tenacious provocations we managed to distinguish the primary from the
secondary, we managed to ignore minor personal issues and successfully
solve the problems we had set before us. However, the challenges our
state and people are facing require more." These lines are from the
speech Serge Sargsyan delivered at the end of the conference of the
Republican Party on July 22. Their main and only peculiarity is that
these lines were uttered during the first 35 seconds of the first
speech of Serge Sargsyan as a Republican. It was the first speech of
the newly elected chair of the Council of the Republican Party, which
was the last in the extraordinary conference of the Republican Party.
Certainly, we do not think that the extraordinary conference of the
Republican Party is a show, but perhaps it is interesting to note
that a rule of shows concerns every public event in which speeches
are made. The participants of the show dispute over the right for
the last speech because they say the audience remembers the last
performance the best. And perhaps after the conference closed with
the speech of Serge Sargsyan the members of the party memorized the
speech of the newly elected deputy leader of the party Serge Sargsyan
rather than the speech of the old leader of the party Andranik
Margaryan. And though we do not compare this situation with a show,
there is an interesting nuance about the speeches of the old leader
of the Republican and his new vice, nevertheless. Serge Sargsyan, who
had just been elected chair of the Council of the Republican Party,
spoke about the political developments, activity, plans and priorities
of the party more than the leader Andranik Margaryan. In other words,
Serge Sargsyan said what the Republicans must do and why.
"Cooperation is good but we have to come together. The healthy and
able forces of the republic have to come together, and I think that by
this conference we give a start to this process. Depending on whether
we succeed or fail I think we can renovate this idea or discredit
it. We have determined members of the party, we have a powerful army
of supporters, we have political will and resolve to lead our country
forward, raise it to a new level. I am sure that we will solve this
problem successfully. At least, I will do everything for us to win,"
the newly elected chair of the Council of the Republican Party Serge
Sargsyan concluded his first speech.
It certainly contains a great number of questions the answers to which
do have importance for the country. Particularly, can the minister
announcing about the unification of healthy forces see healthy forces
in the opposition and is he ready to ally with them?
"I can see healthy forces everywhere. Armenia does not have a problem
of healthy forces. Armenia has a problem with uniting these forces,"
says Serge Sargsyan. In this case, it is more than surprising that the
minister of defense, speaking about an alliance of healthy forces,
becomes a member of the Republican Party. Perhaps he thinks that
healthy forces are only in the Republican Party. In this case, why
does he announce that he can see healthy forces everywhere? If he
can see them everywhere, why did he go to the Republican? Perhaps the
most convenient characterization of someone who aspires to uniting all
the healthy forces of the nation would be an independent non-partisan
figure who is not confined to the party’s interests.
Otherwise, it is difficult to understand for whose victory Serge
Sargsyan will be doing "everything", the Republican Party or the
healthy forces of everywhere? And again a question occurs, if healthy
forces, why inside the Republican Party?
HAKOB BADALYAN