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LTP on Constitutional Reform: First president says Sargsyan wants to
"eternalize his power"
Politics | 22.07.14 | 17:44
By Sara Khojoyan
ArmeniaNow reporter
Independent Armenia's first president and opposition leader, Levon
Ter-Petrosyan says the issue of Constitutional reforms creates a
special gap between the government and the opposition, and in case of
continuing it, President Serzh Sargsyan might face loss of power.
Political analysts and other oppositional forces say that
Ter-Petrosyan points at pressure put on Prosperous Armenia Party, the
second-strongest political party.
"If Serzh Sargsyan continues to persist in his attempt to eternalize
his power by means of constitutional reforms, then under serious
political processes that will unfold in autumn, he, no doubt, will
become the digger of his own 'bandit state' system's grave,"
Ter-Petrosyan said in an interview with ilur.am website, thus
promising a 'hot' political autumn.
Emphasizing that planned Constitutional reforms ruin Armenian
sovereignty, and "even though all serious political forces have
pronounced categorically against the initiative of constitutional
changes," Ter-Petrosyan mentioned that Sargsyan sees the position of
the Prosperous Armenia Party as the main obstacle on his way to
achieving the goal.
"If until recently he tried to overcome this obstacle by a carrot,
that is, to win the party over by some promises, then now, according
to the information we have, by employing the entire law-enforcement
machine, he is going to use the stick against the PAP, that is,
threats and blackmail, and the other opposition forces and the entire
society cannot tolerate it," the first president said.
It is noteworthy that in spring when presenting the 12-point demands
to the government, the oppositional political quartet, including
Ter-Petrosyan's Armenian National Congress (ANC), did not include a
point about rejecting Constitutional reforms in the list, mainly
because one of the forces - Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF)
party has always given importance to starting the process of reforms
of the country's main law.
And now, when the head of the government, Hovik Abrahamyan, is PAP
leader Gagik Tsarukyan's relative (his daughter's father-in-law),
Ter-Petrosyan views Tsarukyan's position on Constitutional reforms
endangered.
According to political analyst, oppositional Heritage party member
Stepan Safaryan, Ter-Petrosyan desires the process of Constitutional
reforms to become a tool for consolidating political forces.
"And he is afraid that PAP will give in and agree with the government.
And Levon Ter-Petrosyan assures PAP that he will stand fast," Safaryan
told news.am.
At an interview with news.am political analyst Yervand Bozoyan
mentioned that the political forces understand that Constitutional
changes are unacceptable.
"It is clear that there is peace within the quartet who refuses any
changes. Ter-Petrosyan expressed his concern about the government
pressing on PAP. And thus the first president urges the people to be
one for all and all for one."
http://armenianow.com/news/politics/56283/levon_terpetrosyan_serzh_sargsyan_gagik_tsarukyan_ constitutional_reform
From: Baghdasarian
"eternalize his power"
Politics | 22.07.14 | 17:44
By Sara Khojoyan
ArmeniaNow reporter
Independent Armenia's first president and opposition leader, Levon
Ter-Petrosyan says the issue of Constitutional reforms creates a
special gap between the government and the opposition, and in case of
continuing it, President Serzh Sargsyan might face loss of power.
Political analysts and other oppositional forces say that
Ter-Petrosyan points at pressure put on Prosperous Armenia Party, the
second-strongest political party.
"If Serzh Sargsyan continues to persist in his attempt to eternalize
his power by means of constitutional reforms, then under serious
political processes that will unfold in autumn, he, no doubt, will
become the digger of his own 'bandit state' system's grave,"
Ter-Petrosyan said in an interview with ilur.am website, thus
promising a 'hot' political autumn.
Emphasizing that planned Constitutional reforms ruin Armenian
sovereignty, and "even though all serious political forces have
pronounced categorically against the initiative of constitutional
changes," Ter-Petrosyan mentioned that Sargsyan sees the position of
the Prosperous Armenia Party as the main obstacle on his way to
achieving the goal.
"If until recently he tried to overcome this obstacle by a carrot,
that is, to win the party over by some promises, then now, according
to the information we have, by employing the entire law-enforcement
machine, he is going to use the stick against the PAP, that is,
threats and blackmail, and the other opposition forces and the entire
society cannot tolerate it," the first president said.
It is noteworthy that in spring when presenting the 12-point demands
to the government, the oppositional political quartet, including
Ter-Petrosyan's Armenian National Congress (ANC), did not include a
point about rejecting Constitutional reforms in the list, mainly
because one of the forces - Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF)
party has always given importance to starting the process of reforms
of the country's main law.
And now, when the head of the government, Hovik Abrahamyan, is PAP
leader Gagik Tsarukyan's relative (his daughter's father-in-law),
Ter-Petrosyan views Tsarukyan's position on Constitutional reforms
endangered.
According to political analyst, oppositional Heritage party member
Stepan Safaryan, Ter-Petrosyan desires the process of Constitutional
reforms to become a tool for consolidating political forces.
"And he is afraid that PAP will give in and agree with the government.
And Levon Ter-Petrosyan assures PAP that he will stand fast," Safaryan
told news.am.
At an interview with news.am political analyst Yervand Bozoyan
mentioned that the political forces understand that Constitutional
changes are unacceptable.
"It is clear that there is peace within the quartet who refuses any
changes. Ter-Petrosyan expressed his concern about the government
pressing on PAP. And thus the first president urges the people to be
one for all and all for one."
http://armenianow.com/news/politics/56283/levon_terpetrosyan_serzh_sargsyan_gagik_tsarukyan_ constitutional_reform
From: Baghdasarian