THUS, NO REVOLUTION WAS CARRIED OUT IN ARMENIA
PanARMENIAN.Net
16.05.2007 GMT+04:00
The reason that no revolution was carried out in Armenia was that the
society realized that there is the Karabakh Conflict, the issue of
the Armenian-Turkish relations existing and the not quite friendly
region that Armenia has to deal with.
Any elections in Armenia, like in all the other post Soviet areas,
are the end of the world. No one is happy; all accuse each other
(and never themselves) of all deadly sins. But the elections held
on May 12 in Armenia became a little exception. The conclusion the
international observers arrived at and the careful remark made by the
US State Department poured like cold water on the defeated opposition.
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ "The Parliamentary elections in Armenia were
democratic. In comparison with the previous elections the Parliamentary
elections held on May 12 complied with all international democratic
standards," announced the head of the observation mission of the OSCE
Parliamentary Assembly, OSCE PA Vice-President Tone Tingsgard. The
elections were indeed held peacefully, with minimum violations;
as the head of the CIS observation mission Vladimir Rushailo said,
elections can never be perfect. The truth is, however, that everything
depends on how much the violations influence the final results. In
Armenia these violations are, let’s say, of technical character,
and didn’t have any impact on the results.
In other words, no revolution in Armenia was carried out, and the
reason was that the society realized that there is the Karabakh
Conflict, the issue of the Armenian-Turkish relations existing and the
not quite friendly region that Armenia has to deal with, and that it
could have very dangerous consequences for the country to take such
a risk.
As for the three leading parties, they definitely won.
The Republican Party, the Prosperous Armenia and Dashnaktsutiun got
their votes. The existence of the two oppositional parties Orinats
Yerkir and Heritage was quite explicable.
The elections are over, and now Armenia has another important step
to take; the appointment of Ministers and the allocation of the posts
in the Parliament are still ahead. What’s the probability of creating
coalition in the Parliament we will know in a while.
However, a number of politicians have already started to speak
of irrationality of the second alliance. "We don’t need coalition
having a symbolic character. The truth is that with the Republican
Party of Armenia we have had a long way and we don’t exclude the
possible cooperation. We are ready to cooperate with all Parliamentary
parties. The one-party government experience is applied all over the
world and perhaps Armenia will have the same experience. The one-party
government has both its advantages and disadvantages.
The thing is that the whole responsibility of all what is going on in
the country falls on one political power, but the outcomes are hard
to be predicted," said the representative of the Supreme Body of the
ARF Dashnaktsutyun Armen Rustamyan. The party will have 16 mandates
which is not a small number if non-party deputies or deputies from the
Prosperous Armenia join it, which is quite possible. The Prosperous
Armenia together with one-mandatories has only 20 sits available.
According to the press secretary of the Republican Party Edward
Sharmazanov, the party is inclined to establish constructive
cooperation with all Parliamentary parties. "The formation of
Parliamentary coalition is not considered as an end in itself. We have
already had one "sad" experience of forming coalition with Orinats
Yerkir, which we would not like to repeat. We ready to take up the
whole responsibility if one-party government is formed," the Republican
Party thinks. In other words, there is nothing wrong with one-party
government. So we only have to wait till June 7, when the first
session of the 4th call of meeting of the RA National Assembly is held.
"PanARMENIAN.Net" analytical department