MEMBER OF OLIGARCHY CLUB

Lragir
17/11/09

"Aravot" daily reports the Prime Minister of Armenia joined the
Republican Party. The information was confirmed by the Republican
press speaker Eduard Sharmazanov who noted that the event took place
a couple of days ago.

The press has recently written that the Republican Party, especially
its oligarchic wing is very much dissatisfied with the Prime Minister.

The press wrote also that the Prime Minister was possible to be
dismissed next spring when the crisis will be more felt in the
Armenian socio-economic sphere. The coalition member parties are
also discontent with the Prime Minister, as well as the ARF which
left the coalition. And in particular, the major business.

Tigran Sargsyan became a Republican, or as the press baptized him
"member of the oligarchic club". The same oligarchs who the Prime
Minister said were the target of the economic course of the government
of this year. They had to pay taxes, come out of shadow and not to
create obstacles for the formation of free competitive atmosphere. A
thing that international structures demand altogether with which the
Prime Minister agreed.

Apparently, this worried the Armenian oligarchic system. Serge
Sargsyan found a solution particular to him – the Prime Minister
becomes a member of the oligarchic club which on one hand calms this
class down, on the other hand, it becomes a little inconvenient to
dismiss a partner. At the same time, those interested structures will
be satisfied.

The joining of the Prime Minister to the Republican Party confirms
the affirmations that there will not be any reform in the current
governmental system, in other words, there will not be even an
imitation of it. The maximum that can be is the complete transition of
the policy to the backstage, redistribution of property, formation of
new oligarchs instead of the old ones and other such kind of phenomena.