WHAT CONNECTION DOES THE MINISTER OF COMMUNICATION HAVE?
Lragir.am
02 Aug 06
In Armenia, nobody doubts who the real leader of the Republican Party
is, who is going to strengthen his position in the political party.
He even set the timing, "in three or four months the results of the
process underway will become visible." It goes without saying that
the minister of defense Serge Sargsyan is concerned, who is simply
going to buy the Republican Party, Manuk Gasparyan says.
However, even the "prophesy" of Manuk Gasparyan is useless already
because the "sale" of the Republican Party has already taken place,
which was confirmed during the extraordinary conference of the
Republican Party, when the one or two-days-old Republicans, who had
bid for membership to the Republican Party on Serge Sargsyan’s fancy,
were elected members of the Council of the party.
One of them, for instance, the mayor of Yerevan Yervand Zakharyan,
not only was elected member of the Council, but also elected others
like him. And he was assisted by the minister of communication and
transport Andranik Manukyan, studying the ballot of voting to the
Council of the Republican Party together with Zakharyan. Helping
one’s neighbor is not bad, of course, especially for a man who has
announced for a number of times about his close tie with God. He has
his political party, which is called "Solidarity".
Consequently, it is supposed that the partisan ethic required not
interfering with the election of the Council of another political
party, especially if one is just a guest at the conference of this
political party. Of course, it is difficult to say that Yervand
Zakharyan followed Andranik Manukyan’s advice in voting. It is
also difficult to say that Andranik Manukyan advised anything to
Zakharyan. But it is a fact that Manukyan was scrutinizing the ballot
of voting to the council of the Republican Party, which our photo
camera recorded. Consequently, it is already a historical fact that
Andranik Manukyan was in the focus of the election of the Council of
the Republican Party.
And this fact is interesting not only because it is an interference
with the affairs of another political party. The point is that
Andranik Manukyan has always had controversies with the leader of
the Republican Party Andranik Margaryan. The recent controversy
occurred over the reports of ministries on 2005, when the prime
minister assessed the performance of the Ministry of Communication
and Transport as satisfactory, pushing the minister into a fury. This
is a fresh example. But there is an older, though a more vivid example.
When Andranik Margaryan was opening his hotel in 2001, President
Kocharyan and literally the whole government was there, except
Prime Minister Andranik Margaryan. So it was a surprise to see the
minister of communication and transport among the few guests of the
extraordinary conference of the Republican Party, who later appeared
during the voting to be more than just a guest. Maybe it was an effort
by Andranik Margaryan to make it up with his namesake, although such a
truce resembles a capitulation rather. And under these circumstances
it is already unimportant who capitulated, the prime minister to the
minister of communication or transport or to the minister who had
probably invited Andranik Manukyan. The fact is that the election of
the Council of the Republican Party already takes place outside this
political party as well.
HAKOB BADALYAN
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
