POLITICAL ENGINEER ON PROSPEROUS ARMENIA PARTY’S FATE

tert.am
17.05.12

According to political engineer Armen Badalyan, Prosperous Armenia
will suffer great should it form a coalition with the ruling Republican
party.

Speaking at a news conference today, Badalyan said if the PAP does
so the public will associate it with the Rule of Law party.

“The PAP is gradually reducing to the level of the Rule of Law party.

People have voted for them considering the Prosperous Armenia party
an alternative force. Gagik Tsarukyan received votes because he was
not Arthur Baghdasaryan. If the coalition is formed, the PAP will
lose its electorate,” the political engineer said.

Should the PAP form a coalition it will lose its resources for ensuring
electorate in the 2017 parliamentary elections.

“Irrespective of any substantiation for forming the coalition, the
PAP will lose, the RPA will win,” Badalyan said.

If the party refuses to form the coalition it will have two fates:
it will automatically become an opposition. “But if it preserves the
same quality, it will weaken. If it undergoes qualitative change it
may develop in future,” Badalyan said.

In his words, the RPA does not need forming a coalition as it already
has 75 mandates, with the Rule of Law party’s counted.

“When we say Republican party, we mean the RoL as well, theoretically,
they do not need coalition,” the political engineer said.