THE ARMY OF POLITICAL SCIENTISTS REPLENISHED AGAIN

“Of course I wouldn’t like any political speculations over my quitting Dashnaktsutyun party. Because I held and continue holding the viewpoint that Dashnaktsutyun is one of our national values; it is one of the values of our political thought. It existed in the past, exists today and will exist in future. No divergence of opinions is possible in this regard. At least as far as my personality is concerned, I really can’t imagine our political thought without Dashnaktsutyun. I possibly can’t. It’s quite a different matter that there is a certain disagreement with the present-day leadership of the party in terms of political attitudes. And this has caused us to be represented in different camps now,” former parliamentarian ROUBEN HAKOBYAN announced in “Pastark” (argument) club yesterday.

In response to the question what disagreements he had with Dashnaktsutyun, the speaker said, “Dashnaktsutyun would have a better representation if it didn’t form part of the coalition. Our political arena would be more balanced if Dashnaktsutyun weren’t a coalition party.”
What is, after all, the former RA Consul in St. Petersburg going to do after returning to Armenia? R. Hakobyan has nothing to hide because as a public figure, he is going to be engaged in active politics. But already in the status of a non-partisan. And in general, he rules out the possibility of becoming a member of any party.
Mr. Hakobyan informed that a political-analytical center will soon be registered with the relevant state agency by his initiative; the centre will be engaged in political analyses and issue publicistic articles.
Touching upon the internal political problems, the speaker again insisted on his well-known proposal as the only variant for overcoming them.
R. Hakobyan believes that, “the post-electoral struggle is not over yet. Both the state of emergency and the subsequent developments did not contribute to the internal political arena to overcome the tension.” As regards the “wondering subject”, i.e. the dialogue, “unfortunately it did not descend from the heaven; it did not become a reality. In my deep conviction, the reason was that neither of the parties actually had a sincere desire to have a dialogue with the other.”
Although the lack of desire is obvious, there is one “plane” which, if made available, may enable the parties to start a dialogue. R. Hakobyan makes the following conclusion-prediction: “The plane on which L. Ter-Petrosyan and the authorities may have a dialogue is, in my opinion, being sketched. That is, finding one culprit who will meet the requirements of the two parties. It looks as though this culprit were Robert Kocharyan, as the former President. And it looks as though this might enable the parties to start a dialogue.
Why? Because during the pan-national congress they dropped a very plain hint that the President had nothing in common with the March 1 events.” Substantiating his conclusion-prediction, the speaker also noted, “I don’t think any representative of the authorities would be against this scenario.”
Despite the prediction, the author believes that considering R. Kocharyan responsible for and guilty of all this is not a requisite condition for initiating a dialogue “so as it would be possible to make an accurate assessment on the existing situation and enable the state to overcome the tension through a dialogue.”
So, there is one way out. “To organize extraordinary presidential and parliamentary elections and hold them no sooner than in a year and no later than in half a year.”
KIMA YEGHYAZARYAN

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