THERE ARE PEOPLE IN GOVERNMENT WHO LOOK FOR ALTERNATIVE

Lragir.am
12-07-2007 14:08:07

The opinion was voiced before the election that the controversies
inside the government would enable the opposition’s success. Does
the chain of controversies inside the government still continue,
and can the opposition use them during the presidential election of
2008? The reporter of Lragir.am asked this question July 12 at the
National Press Club to Vazgen Manukyan, who aspires to being the
common candidate of the opposition.

The leader of the NDU said those controversies which had natural and
artificial causes are impossible to use. "It is pointless to hope that
they will fight against each other, and the opposition will come back
to power. For instance, Bukharin, Trotsky, Stalin, Zinovev, Kamenev,
their controversies did not encourage the white guard that they would
come to power, because they understood that through struggle one of
them would become stronger," Vazgen Manukyan says.

He says if a stronger opposition emerged in the parliamentary election,
the wings of government would forget about their controversies and
would come together. The leader of the NDU says since there was no
united opposition, the controversies of the government were expressed
more openly. "But it was impossible to use them."

"As to the presidential election, I think the controversies inside the
government will not be used, because nevertheless there are people in
the government who hold enough power, enough capacity but they have
inner worry that this kind of a state cannot meet challenges. And not
only their patriotic thinking but also their instinct of security makes
them want an alternative, which would not affect their own lives but
would improve the country where their existence and their children’s
existence, their prosperity would be guaranteed, they would agree to
cooperate with such a force openly or not," Vazgen Manukyan says.