EXPERT: MOSCOW WOULD NOT BET ON TSARUKYAN OVER INCUMBENT AUTHORITIES
00:37, 17.03.2015
YEREVAN. – Moscow sees too much risk and danger in withdrawing support
from the incumbent Armenian government and trying a riskier gamble
of supporting any other alternative, Richard Giragosian, the founding
director of the Regional Studies Center (RSC), a Yerevan-based foreign
policy think-tank, told Armenia News-NEWS.am.
“My concern over the demise, or weakening, of Prosperous Armenia,
however, is that it falls within the trend of centralizing a one-party
system in Armenia,” he said on the sidelines of the fourth ordinary
session of Euronest Parliamentary Assembly in Yerevan..
Prosperous Armenia party, led by an Armenian business tycoon Gagik
Tsarukyan, has long been claiming a solid partnership with United
Russia, Russia’s ruling party. On March 5 Tsarukyan said he would
quit his post as a chairman of Prosperous Armenia.
The future of Prosperous Armenia, after the retirement of Tsarukyan
in early March, is extremely limited, and under threat, given the
defection of many from the party, Giragosian said.
“The party will likely continue the same policies but with weaker
personalities. This reflects the deeper disease of Armenian politics,
where there’s a clash of personalities rather than a competition of
policies,” he concluded.
Armenia News – NEWS.am
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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