Wind of mountains

Yesterday morning the vitalization of the vision of a new Armenia was stopped when the speaker of the parliament announced about the resignation of the Heritage party chairman Raffi Hovhannisyan from the parliament.

The society is going to be tortured during the coming 14 days with the hope that he will change his mind and stay in the parliament to make the great and patriotic mission come true. The problem is that Raffi Hovhannisyan has a habit to decide something and later change his month as he did in the previous parliament. If he does not change his mind, his followers will have to change their strategy and start advocating for him to be nominated for president during the upcoming elections, which is the reason why this show was organized.

This is just an assumption because the members if the most “public” political power of Armenia do not disturb themselves to inform the electorate the reason for the party leader’s resignation and they only say that one of the reasons is possible participation in the upcoming presidential rival. This means that there are other reasons as well, and in fact the leader of the most “public” party does not want to be accountable to his electorate, which is also one of the arguments he brought against the government during the past elections.

This means that he has cheated his electorate – all those people that voted for his party during May 6 parliamentary election. In fact if he drops his mandate, he can do other things as well – such as giving, selling or donating. If this is the case, why did not he resign on May 7, when it became clear that the authorities just made it possible for them to be elected in the parliament? If he did not drop the mandate thrown to him by the authorities, it means that this time he did it in order to bargain with the authorities during the upcoming elections. There is no other explanation about his resignation, because if a candidate does not stand a chance to win the election and is participating in the election, it means the goal and only purpose of doing so is providing participating in the government and crunching a small art form the power. We think that nobody suspects that Raffi Hovhannisyan’s chances are not more than 5%.

Let’s remember that during the parliamentary elections Raffi Hovhannisyan was nominated for MP under majoritarian system in Talin and he collected 1200 votes only – 3%. Even if theoretically we imagine that Raffi Hovhannisyan can win the presidential election, it is really dangerous for the country.  At least, it is not expected that even after winning, according to his habit, he may announce that he will decide whether to take the president’s responsibilities in June. In fact in this case Armenia may stay without a president for several months.