RAZMIK ZOHRABIAN: RAMS NEVER LEAD AN ARMY OF LIONS

Noyan Tapan

Se p 10, 2008

YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 10, NOYAN TAPAN. The Republican Party of Armenia
(RPA) made a decision about inexpediency of the further activities of
Tigran Torosian as the speaker of the RA National Assembly based on
the tactics of the party’s personnel policy, the deputy chairman of
RPA Razmik Zohrabian said at the September 9 press conference at Hayeli
Club. "We decide our personnel policy themselves within the party. Our
party has strict regulations and discipline, and we all must obey it,"
he added, not explaining the reason for the "inexpediency".

He drew a parallel with a football team: when the coach changes
a player, it does not mean that he plays badly. According to him,
T. Torosian worked quite well, while holding that post, and there is
no problem of justifying or not justifying. "The chairman proposed,
while the executive body discussed and agreed," he noted. In the
words of R. Zohrabian, the party has a strong leader who unites many
leaders. "A strong person should lead the strong, it never happens
that rams lead an army of lions. We obey a strong leader, especially
as he is the president of the country and knows many state secrets,
maybe there is something that was not said at the executive body,
this is the right of the country’s president," he said.

To recap, the decision to replace T. Torosian by a newly-elected deputy
of the National Assembly, the former chief of the RA presidential
staff Hovik Abrahamian has to be approved at the sitting of the RPA
board scheduled for September 16.

R. Zohrabian did not consider the visit of Turkish President Abdullah
Gul to Armenia as a diplomatic victory. "It was just a start of
relations, and we welcome it," he said.