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    RAFFI HOVHANNISYAN'S CIVILIZED MANNER ALMOST COMPLETELY UNDERMINED THE BRUTE FORCE METHOD OF OPPOSITIONISTS, M. HAYRAPETYAN SAYS

    April 29 2013

    Mikayel Hayrapetyan, the leader of the Conservative Party of Armenia,
    had stated on one occasion that only Paruyr Hayrikyan and Raffi
    Hovhannisyan had earned the moral right of leading the opposition in
    the city council election and had gone into detail: "The others who
    take opposition attitude, but didn't venture to participate in the
    presidential election only two months ago are worse, in my opinion,
    than the party that has usurped power and carry out only one mission,
    not to allow Mr. Hovhannisyan to win 37% again." www.aravot.am
    inquired of Mr. Hayrapetyan what grounds he had to express such an
    opinion, considering the fact that it was stated that given the
    participation of the other opposition forces in the city council
    election, the Heritage Party had to prove the genuineness of its 37%
    result. He replied: "Firstly, since Raffi Hovhannisyan has taken on
    the role of the opposition leader on the Armenian 'political stage,'
    opposition forces are compelled to neutralize Raffi Hovhannisyan's
    37% and prove to society that it was because they didn't participate
    in the presidential election. Secondly, decreasing that 37% is
    partly in Serzh Sargsyan's interests; he will try to increase his
    approval rating by that. However, the situation is very delicate;
    it is possible that if that 37% is substantially decreased, the
    Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF), the Prosperous Armenia Party
    (PAP), and the Armenian National Congress (ANC) whose appetite and
    harsh methods of struggle have stood the test of time will cause an
    unnecessary headache for the government." Mr. Hayrapetyan had also
    stated that regardless of "how many votes the government will take
    away from Hello, Yerevan through ballot rigging and how many votes the
    obsolete and homegrown oppositionists will seize from Hello, Yerevan,
    doing yet another service to the Establishment," Raffi Hovhannisyan's
    civilized attitude bid to become a rule of the game. We asked M.

    Hayrapetyan to explain to us why he thought that R. Hovhannisyan's
    civilized attitude bid to become a rule of the game. In this regard,
    our interlocutor said: "Mr. Hovhannisyan's civilized manner has almost
    completely undermined the brute method of almost all opposition
    forces of the Third Republic in the eyes of society. It has become
    clear to society that the government can deploy tanks against the most
    uncompromising struggle, fire, kill. Therefore, the way out is not the
    uncompromisingness of the struggle at all; the result is the same,
    Vazgen Manukyan's, Stepan Demirchyan's, and Levon Ter-Petrossian's
    struggles on the one hand and Raffi Hovhannisyan's struggle on the
    other. So a change of power in Armenia is not possible either through
    elections or through disturbances similar to an uprising. In this
    case, society prefers peaceful protests, which leads to the same
    failure, but the cosmetic advantages of which are obvious. Firstly
    there are no victims; secondly, something like a revolution of the
    mind is carried out, which can lead to success one day, reaching the
    necessary condition. The current oppositionists also realize this
    public sentiment and are compelled to change their 20-year-old way
    of struggle; otherwise, they will become completely marginalized. We
    should be thankful firstly to the late Karen Demirchyan for that
    and secondly to Raffi Hovhannisyan who have shown a unique talent of
    thinking a few steps ahead, not causing serious clashes, since even in
    case of '100 percent victory,' the government will not give in. There
    are two solutions to this: the first is a coup d'etat; the second is
    tectonic movement of geopolitical poles. The first one has been tried
    and has ended in a disaster, and the second one is not visible yet."

    Tatev HARUTYUNYAN

    Read more at: http://en.aravot.am/2013/04/29/154015/

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