Ugly Scenes 2
Lragir.am
Country – 14 March 2015, 16:12
Once reversed, one will never go forward, the saying is. Another
scandal has matured in the Heritage Party after two representatives of
this party Armen Martirosyan and Ruben Hakobyan met with Serzh
Sargsyan.
Another member of this party, Zaruhi Postanjyan, called them “Serzh
Sargsyan’s clients”.
“Perhaps they went in the capacity of clients of 26 Baghramyan Avenue.
This participation has nothing to do with the Heritage Party. Maybe
they acted as sole proprietors but not as politicians and did not
represent the Heritage Party,” Zaruhi Postanjyan said, adding that the
board of the Heritage Party was against that meeting.
Those who met with Serzh Sargsyan say they did not go to the
presidential office on their own, and Raffi Hovhannisian, the leader
of the party, was aware of it.
The press reported that the board meeting did not discuss a format,
the members of the board were against a meeting with Serzh Sargsyan in
an inclusive format whereas they visited the presidential palace in a
delegation of two.
Now they are waiting for what Raffi Hovhannisian will say who is never
“present” at such moment. What is this? Internal democracy of a
political party a unique example of which the Heritage Party,
nevertheless, is, or a usual political trick of balancing with one
foot outside and another foot inside?
After the collapse of the “popular movement” Serzh Sargsyan is freely
“realigning” the field to build the next government. He is having
meetings with the “political forces” in the result of which he will
make a decision on their future role and place.
The forces called political understand what is happening (they
understand such things well, one may say they only understand such
things that are related to tradeoff and opportunities to appear in the
next government). Hence, they are making their choice.
The Heritage Party has appeared in an ambiguous situation, and their
game is ambiguous in this setting. On the one hand, the party did not
have a decision on meeting with Serzh Sargsyan. On the other hand, its
two members met with him.
Apparently, room for reverse has been left in case Serzh Sargsyan
“deceives” this party while forming the next parliament.
They deceived it in the 2012 parliamentary election when there were
not enough seats for the Heritage Party and Raffi had to resign.
Then the presidential election of 2013 followed when nobody could
figure out Raffi’s behavior. He rushed from the square to the
presidential office and then to Moscow.
Then he joined the most ridiculous format of the Armenian politics –
the troika – where, however, he was not given the freedom to make
speeches in rallies until two experienced traders visited Serzh
Sargsyan.
The Armenian political forces have two ways: cooperate with the
government or do politics, forming a new quality environment and
relations.
This is a very complicated and endless path, provided the level of
degradation of the Armenian public and political environment and lack
of quality and requires sacrifices.
Both ways are honest. Dishonesty is maneuvering between these two.