SECRETARY OF OPPOSITIONAL HERITAGE FACTION: POWER SYSTEM OF ARMENIA CAN SHARK NOT ONLY OPPOSITION, BUT ALSO ITS OWN PEOPLE
ArmInfo
2008-09-16 16:29:00
ArmInfo. ‘The present evil system in Armenia has vividly demonstrated
that it can shark not only representatives of the opposition, but also
its own people’, Stepan Safaryan, the Secretary of the oppositional
Heritage Party’s parliamentary faction, told ArmInfo correspondent
when commenting upon Speaker of the Armenian National Assembly Tigran
Torosyan’s Sep 16 decision to leave his post and the ranks of the
ruling Republican Party of Armenia (RPA).
According to the oppositionist, the latest events demonstrated that
the formal institutes of power in the country are only to attach a
legal form to different groups’ decisions. ‘This is proved by the
circumstance that the decision had been taken long before it was
discussed in the National Assembly , and the parliament has only to
approve it’, Safaryan said.
Speaking of possible premises of the RPA leadership’s decision to
replace Speaker of the Armenian National Assembly Tigran Torosyan with
Hovik Abrahamyan, the oppositionist supposed that most likely the
matter concerns implementation of promises given by President Serzh
Sargsyan during the pre-election period. ‘Hovik Abrahamyan lost the
Vice Premier’s post he had held for many years, and now he is obviously
getting the promised compensation’, he s aid. Tigran Torosyan’s
resignation should be a good lesson for all those myrmidons of the law
who should finally realize that radical reforms in the country meet
the authorities’ own interests as well, Safaryan stressed. He added
that the Heritage faction hasn’t yet discussed the issue whether it
will take part in voting on Torosyan’s dismissal.