IMAGINATION TURNING INTO MANIA
Naira Khachatryan

Hayots Ashkhar Daily
Published on July 25, 2008
Armenia

President of the Union of the Political Scientists Hmayak Hovhannisyan
was the guest of "De Facto" yesterday.

The Political Scientist is for the dialogue between the opposition and
the authorities. But he stated that according to the classical laws
of sociology Levon Ter-Petrosyan must represent the pro-oppositional
domain, because he was the one to get the votes of the protestant
electorate.

He believes, "Undeniably the ruling power must have more productive
touches with the civil society, must be more attentive towards the
demands and expectations of the different layers of society, but
meanwhile the ruling power must initiate a dialogue on the political
level, in order to overcome the unfavorable moral-psychological
atmosphere in the country."

Still during the Presidential elections H. Hovhannisyan reserved the
role of an impartial arbiter of dialogue for Robert Kocharyan and he
accused the second President for his unrealized dreams.

"It would have been logical for him to take the role of a favorable
arbiter for the country, for the candidates and in my view for Serge
Sargsyan, instead of emphasizing his patronage towards Serge Sargsyan,
thus depriving himself of the right to the role of an arbiter. Which
is a necessity from the point of view of political sciences, t o
ensure equal game rules."

According to the logic of H. Hovhannisyan’s analyses after committing
himself to the role of an arbiter R. Kocharyan must have left the
political arena, which he didn’t do, because he was publishing a book,
"And this shows that he doesn’t intend to leave the political arena. It
would have been logical for Robert Kocharyan to take a break, if not
ten at least for some years. Why didn’t he take this break?"

H. Hovhannisyan’s predictions in terms of the developments following
2007 parliamentary elections also didn’t come true. Of course the blame
over again lays on R. Kocharyan: "Announcing after the parliamentary
elections that "Bargavach Hayastan" party obtained less votes than
the Republicans Robert Kocharyan should have resigned."

But this is not all. Justifying Ter-Petrosyan’s refusal of the proposal
for dialogue and cooperation made by Serge Sargsyan and of course
taking the responsibility of March 1 events from the shoulders of
the radical opposition, the Political Scientist pointed out Robert
Kocharyan’s July 9 interview given to "Mediamax" saying "it was a
claim for the establishment of an iron hand in Armenia."

And the claim for the establishment of an iron hand was allegedly
addressed to nomenclature: "He is saying that Serge Sargsyan can’t
provide our security.20That Serge Sargsyan can’t be a safe roof
for us. I am the only person to provide security for you. And this
nomenclature, in the conditions of similar developments gradually
will have to yield to those whom Serge Sargsyan is bringing to the
political; arena, slowly, but still bringing."

"Aren’t the radical opposition and their ideological devotee H.

Hovhannisyan fighting for power?"

"Not the power but the leading staff is the first figure. Had Serge
Sargsyan done radical changes, accepting the package of the settlement
of human resource issue that LTP proposed, we could have seen that
change of power really took place."