ABSENCE OF ALTERNATIVE

Hayots Ashkhar Daily
21 Nov 08
Armenia

President of Armenian Sociological Association Gevorg Poghosyan said:
"An interesting thing happened. When Levon Ter-Petrosyan appeared
with his followers and he saw that it is difficult to play a new
game with old songs, he tried to get rid of the Armenian Pan National
Movement and formed a new movement. It was an attempt to unite various
pro-oppositional forces in one camp.

But the elections were over, the opposition was defeated and
that camp returned to its origins. So it turned into a collection
of various forces, where everyone has got its own standpoint and
Ter-Petrosyan’s standpoint differs from all the others, especially in
Karabakh issue. Which means there is no unification in that field,
to make them a political opposition. What they have is a positional
opposition that has no disagreements with the ruling power; the only
thing they want is to come to power.

Alas, because our society really needs a serious political opposition,
which can become a real alternative for the ruling power."