ARMENIAN AUTHORITIES TO EITHER BUILD NEW OPPOSITION OR SUPPRESS DISCONTENT – EXPERT
YEREVAN, March 10. /ARKA/. The Armenian authorities will either bring
about a new opposition or will be suppressing the opposition field to
handle protests in the society, information security expert Tigran
Kocharyan said in a live broadcast on Sputnik-Armenia, as cited by
Novosti-Armenia.
Armenia’s internal political situation has changed substantially over
the last month. On March 5, head of the second biggest political party,
Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP), tycoon Gagik Tsarukian resigned. New
PAP leader Naira Zohrabyan said the party moved into opposition.
“The problem is that the biggest opposition force has been destroyed,
but the discontented people are still there. What to do with these
people, who, according to some data, are 70% today, how to control
them?” Kocharyan said. This will be a challenge for the authorities
as there is no opposition, he said.
According to the expert, there may be two scenarios, first, a new
opposition will be quickly built up headed either by parliament deputy
from the Armenian National Congress Nikol Pashinyan or by member of
Heritage Party Zaruhi Postanjyan.
The second way is to simply suppress the opposition field, Kocharyan
said.
“Total destruction of the PAP was like the destruction of the Huguenots
overnight in France”, Kocharyan said.
All the resources of the Prosperous Armenia, including websites,
TV, facebook users, fakes, were found to be unable to resist the
government attacks, he said.
It was the right decision to strike the first blow against the party
leader, as PAP could not settle anything without Gagik Tsarukian,
the expert said. -0–