WILL GALUST’S DREAM COME TRUE?

Lragir.am
03 Aug 06

Already the former deputy mayor of Yerevan Arman Sahakyan said
the reason for his resignation is the election to the head of the
community of Ajapnyak in fall. Arman Sahakyan said he is likely to
run in the local election. Therefore, he submitted his resignation,
which was accepted by Arman Sahakyan’s party leader, Prime Minister
Andranik Margaryan. The factor of the political party was not secondary
because the system of governance is concerned. The Republicans will
now be deployed in the community of Ajapnyak. Arman Sahakyan was
first nominated head of the community of Ajapnyak in 2003. However,
Arman, the son of Galust Sahakyan, was defeated by the encumbant
candidate Artsrun Khachatryan. Khachatryan is the representative of
the so-called clan of Aparan, the protege of Nig Aparan, the honorary
chair of which is Attorney General Aghvan Hovsepyan.

At that time the Republican Party failed to have its candidate win.

In fact, the Republican Party did not take pains to win and came
to an agreement with Nig Aparan. Naturally, it happened under the
"godfatherhood" of the president administration. There is information
that Galust Sahakyan, Arman Sahakyan’s father, had a grudge on the
leader of the Republican Party because they did not go all the way
to defend his son and make him head of the community. And now Arman
Sahakyan is going to try again, in fact. And though the attempt and
the trier are the same, the situation has changed considerably. The
Republican Party is not the same, and the Attorney General is not
the same either. Of course, it is not known whether Nig Aparan and
Artsrun Khachatryan are also going to try. However, the fact that some
time before the election of the head of the community Arman Sahakyan
resigns from the post of the deputy mayor of Yerevan proves that he
has certain guarantees, nevertheless. And these guarantees are thanks
to this change of the situation. Three years ago the interests and
goals of the government were somewhere else, and fitted into the
principle of "one for all and all for one".

Now this logic does not work any longer. The Attorney General, who
had just made a bid for becoming a serious political factor three
years ago, is now announcing that he is not going to became engaged
in politics. In other words, Aghvan Hovsepyan announces that he will
not join the Republican conglomerate led by Serge Sargsyan. In this
case, the Republican Party and the wealth of this party, i.e. the
administrative criminal, cannot make a compromise with the Attorney
General if he once again struggles for the office of the head of
the community of Ajapnyak. And this office, as well as the office of
the head of community in general, is a vital need for the Republican
Party which is now working in the reproduction mode. Consequently,
this time the Republican Party will go all the way. Or most probably
there will be no struggle if Arman Sahakyan confidently resigns from
the office of deputy mayor. After all, he failed once and he would
be more cautious not to lose what he already has. Even if he did
not think about it, his experiened father would give him advice,
who has already become convinced that it is not so "profitable"
to rely on the almightiness of the Republican Party.

But it should be noted that the situation has changed. Everybody
knows this, especially Galust Sahakyan and his son. If three years
ago Serge Sargsyan supported the Republican Party, three years later
he is already the chair of the Council of the Republican Party. In
other words, at present Serge Sargsyan is simply for, in other words,
he has a clear and determined interest. Moreover, the Attorney General
failed "to do politics", he did not join Serge.

Consequently, it should be supposed that Serge Sargsyan "solved
the question" of Arman Sahakyan to become head of the community of
Ajapnyak. In fact, Sargsyan did what Margaryan failed three years
ago. Whereas, it was a simple wish of the brother-in-arms to make his
son head of the community. If the leader of the party cannot fulfill
such simple wishes, and fulfilled only his similar wish to make his
son head of community, the Republicans may naturally come to think
that he is unable to solve more complicated problems, consequently
a more able leader is needed.

After all Galust Sahakyan is not the only Republican who has wishes.

On the other hand, he may not be the only one whose wish came true.

After all, there is a lot of time until the local election, and
if we assume that Serge Sargsyan guaranteed the election of Arman
Sahakyan, it is a question whether someone gave this guarantee to
Serge Sargsyan. And the disappointment with the new leader will be big.

HAKOB BADALYAN