The ANC expressed its attitude to President Sargsayn’s statement on dialogue with the opposition. The leader of the ANC, the former president of Armenia, Levon Ter-Petrosyan, said that reasonable terms had to have limits. According to him, the authorities have to take real steps by the end of August. If they don’t do it, the opposition will have only one demand – resignation of Sargsyan and his coalition.
The ANC is ready to conduct negotiations with the government on holding early presidential and parliamentary elections. They have already formed and presented the list of their delegation, which consists of five people, for the negotiations.
The ruling coalition in response made a lot of statements on urgency of dialogue and readiness to conduct it, but stressed that there was no need in holding early elections in Armenia. On June 17th Sargsyan answered to the opposition proposal: “Moving forward, searching for solutions of current problems through dialogue and discussion is the only reasonable way for powers which carry about our peoples and development of our country.” He stressed that ultimatums are unacceptable. The opposition promised to give their answer at the meeting on June 30th.
So the authorities and the opposition have stated their readiness to begin talks. However, no serious steps were taken. Many pro-government experts and political analysts say that the authorities have already won the chess game against the ANC. And all of them say there is no possibility of holding early elections.
It seems the process of message exchanging between the government and the opposition has come to a deadlock. The authorities imitate readiness to negotiations without taking any certain steps.Nevertheless, there is one crucial moment – a drastic social and economy situation in the country. Clannish oligarchic system reached its apogee due to worsening of social conditions and growth of prices. However, the authorities are enable to take any effective steps to change the situation, as to change it the clannish oligarchic systems has to be destroyed, which will lead to falling of the government.
Another serious circumstance is lack of external finance support and inability of the administration to attract new credits.
Infinite talks about impossibility of holding early elections do not change real state of things. And the real state of things is that Armenia has found itself in a difficult social, economy and legal position.
Susanna Petrosyan, Yerevan. Exclusively for VK.
