ARMENIAN AUTHORITIES AND OPPOSITION PLAY POKER – HERITAGE PARTY

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July 12 2011
Armenia

YEREVAN. – Authority-opposition collaboration in Armenia is a political
farce, where the author is the ruling authority, secretary of Heritage
party Karine Hakobyan told the journalists on Tuesday and added that
authority-opposition negotiations should be institutional and not
one-time event.

“What happens today in Armenia is a result of shaky political ground.

Authorities solve their long-term goals to stay in office.

Authorities-opposition relations resemble not a football or a chess
game but a poker tournament where both sides do not have good cards
and have to bluff,” Heritage representative told.

Another speaker of the conference MP from ruling Republican party
Hovhannes Sahakyan responded that authorities try to integrate
culture of healthy dialogue and negotiations. At the same time,
various political powers try to give different political evaluations
to the process, the MP added.

Debate between the representatives of authority and opposition
gradually deteriorated during the conference. Both sides accused each
other in being not organized.