Armenia in the run up to the parliament elections: matter goes up to nervous breakdowns and sedatives.
ArmInfo.Despite there is two months term before the elections start, the political filed of Armenia has no clear determination regarding proportional lists of
political powers to participate in the elections and the appropriate
pre-electoral blocks and alliances.
The most intensive struggle takes place in respect to the
proportional list of Armenian Republican party, because there is no
doubt RPA will be the leader of this elections, especially between
female candidates - up to nervous breakdowns and sedatives. According
to ArmInfo, this time in the first three positions of RPA list will
be not the Vice Speaker Hermine Naghdalyan, like it was at previous
elections, but the Justice Minister Arpine Haroutyunyan, and this
issue is under the personal control Prime Minister Karen Karapetyan.
This means in the case RPA wins the elections, Arpine Hovhannisyan
will become the Vice Speaker.
To be impartial, it is necessary to mention that this intensive
struggle takes place exactly in respect to the proportional list of
RPA.. What is to the rating lists, candidates for lawmaker's mandate
do not want to spend assets and time for the rating-based struggle
and try to get their places in the proportional list. For instance,
the Tavush district governor rejected to hold struggle within the
rating system.
The nervous environment is observed also in the Prosperous Armenia
Party, expecting Gagik Tsaroukyan to return to big politics. The
plans of Armenian National Congress are still unclear as well. What
is to the pre-electoral block of Yelk, comprising parties of
Prosperous Armenia, Bright Armenia and Republic, here everything is
almost decided and the proportional list will be submitted on January
21.
The pre electoral plans of Seyran Ohanyan, the Ex Minister of
Defense, are not fully realized. According to ArmInfo sources, he
could not reach any large consolidation of electorate, which has been
planned initially. It is clear by now that the Third Republic and
Vardan Oskanyan's Solidarity. The party of Legacy looks to fail
participating to elections as an independent power, and it's members
are expected to be included in the electoral lists of different
blocks. Yesterday an application was submitted by Anahit Bakhshyan to
leave the party, expressing the intention to join Free Democrates
block and the Liberty Party of Hrant Bagratyan.