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    SILENCE BEFORE BIG "BANG"

    Haik Aramyan
    11:54 28/11/2012
    Story from Lragir.am News:
    http://www.lragir.am/index.php/eng/0/comments/view/28181

    There is a strange silence on the eve of the presidential election in
    Armenia but there is a backstage activity. The possible participants
    of the election process are trying to define their plans.

    As of now, only the Republican Party has announced about its nominee.

    There is no news from other camps, though Prosperous Armenia leader
    Gagik Tsarukyan said he has a decision about which will announce soon.

    The Armenian National Congress has not decided yet. According to
    published information, the Congress is considering nomination of its
    own candidate or supporting the PAP nominee. But it is not ruled out
    that part of the Congress will support their candidate and the other
    part will support the PAP.

    The Heritage leader Raffi Hovannisian is in a difficult situation. He
    has finally received his Armenian passport and a certificate stating
    that he lived in Armenia for the past ten years but his wish of
    the first and "triumphant" nomination is offset by his ambiguous
    behavior during and after the parliamentary elections. Raffi has
    lost his resource and either will have to endorse another candidate
    or become an "ordinary" nominee.

    The ARF's behavior is also uncertain. We can see that this party will
    support the candidate who will safeguard government and business
    quotas. Or, which is less likely, it will promote a nominee to be
    able to bargain later.

    The present political class of Armenia could not avoid this situation.

    Everyone understands that this is the "last election" for the system
    so they are trying to stay "afloat" at least for another five years.

    The point is that the political class of Armenia is not adjusted
    to the present home and foreign realities, it has failed to present
    vital and acceptable ideas so it has appeared in a phase of inertia
    which will be followed by its withdrawal from the political field.

    Instead, we can see a stream of self-organization of the public which
    is trying to restore its constitutional rights, including the right to
    form government. The vice-president of Free Democrats Anush Sedrakyan
    is a possible nominee for president, a representative of the civil
    sector Andreas Ghukasyan is another possible nominee. The nomination
    of these figures will be a "bang" marking the start of establishment
    of constitutional Armenia. Against this background, the intrigues of
    the current system, backstage agreements and hysterical propaganda
    will just mark the end of this system.

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