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Armen Tsaturyan
Hayots Ashkharh Daily Newspaper
23 Aug 2007
Armenia
"Fresh Blood" Transfused to Armenian Liberal Ramkavar Party
The only revelation in Armenia’s internal political life during
the summer holidays is the preliminary agreement on the unification
of Samvel Babayan’s "Dashink" union and Albert Bazeyan’s "National
Renaissance" party with Armenian Liberal Ramkavar Party.
In our view this process will somehow contribute to the extension of
Armenian political parties and the future clarification of Armenian
political domain. De-idealization and internal exhaustion processes
faced by almost all the subjects in the political domain jeopardize
the reputation of politics and political activity.
The ended parliamentary elections displayed that the pro-opposition
parties that have chosen this path simply scatter the few votes given
to them by the people.
The political experience of the three united parties displays that
their choice of joining Armenian Liberal Ramkavar Party is properly
calculated.
But for the difficulties faced by Ramkavar Liberal Party recently,
as a traditional party, together with sister party functioning in
Armenia (Armenian Liberal Ramkavar Party), they have rich history,
clear ideology and traditions. There is no need to start from zero or
‘invent a bicycle" for strengthening such party structures. Simply
as any organism parties having rich history also need to transfuse
"fresh blood".
After all the traditional thesis of Ramkavar Liberal Party to
synchronize liberalization with national values can theoretically
"cover" an important sector of the political domain. But practically
to put into effect this thesis Armenian Liberal Ramkavar party has
always been in need of a skillful independent individual with an
experience gained from Armenia and Artsakh.
So it is quite comprehensible why the party functioning in Diaspora
improves the step taken by its sister Armenian Liberal Ramkavar
Party. Thus the party can strengthen their noticeably distorted
position both in Armenia and Diaspora, recover their national-patriotic
image. And only Samvel Babayan’s character is enough to give national
coloring to the liberal image of Armenian Liberal Ramkavar Party.
In his turn, Albert Bazeyan with his image of an irreconcilable
pro-opposition figure can give inexorability to the party that is
traditionally considered "soft power". It comes out that with the
unification with "Dashink" union and "National Renaissance" party
Armenian Liberal Ramkavar Party indents to fill those two gaps.
The leaders of the parties that unified with Armenian Liberal Ramkavar
Party in their turn get the opportunity to have a new role in Armenia’s
political domain, appearing as the representatives of a traditional
party famous for its pan-Armenian coverage. This means the number
and, why not, the financial means of this extended political unit
will definitely grow.
Thus regardless of the political stance adopted by the innovated and
strengthened Armenian Liberal Ramkavar Party towards the forthcoming
political elections, other participants of the political game can’t
ignore such a party.
In our view the present attempt of strengthening Armenian Liberal
Ramkavar party can serve as an example for other parties functioning
in Armenia that have recently started to think about making bigger
parties, for unifying and becoming serious political factors.