Will Artur Bagdasaryan and his Orinats Erkir party will enter one river twice or not? After a party exit from the ruling coalition with republicans and Bagdasaryan's resignations from the post of secretary of Security Council of Armenia this question excites all in Armenia.
Having entered in 2008 into the coalition with republicans, this party, positioning themselves as the opposition, put an end to his own opposition. It diligently voted for everything presented and lobbied by republicans, actually being an RPA appendage. It seemed that the role of the party and personally satellite Baghdasaryan will play at least until the parliamentary elections in 2017.
However, the April resignation of the prime minister Tigran Sarkisian changed he serene and orderly life of the coalition. They say Bagdasaryan applied for the position of the prime minister which was promised him several years ago. And after Ovik Abramyan settled into the premier's chair, the secretary of Security Council couldn't find how to resign and bring the party out of the coalition. Considering the expected changes in the Constitution, according to which the republic will make a gradual transition from presidential to the parliamentary form of government, the post of prime minister would be a tasty morsel. The figure of the prime minister will be the predetermining factor in the formation of the internal and foreign policy agendas. Considering Baghdasaryan's irrepressible lust for power, republicans refusal to grant him the premiership could not finish anything else except demarche, which ended with his resignation. Baghdasaryan's statement, that President Serzh Sargsyan invited him to stay on as Secretary of the Security Council may be true. However the ex-speaker of parliament and the ex-secretary of the Security Council preferred to go for broke. And the fact that three ministers from its party didn't share its views, having preferred to leave "Orinats Yerkir" looks quite logical. The Minister of Emergency Situations, Armen Yeritsyan, was reappointed to the post in the new government. Minister of Agriculture Sergo Karapetyan, according to his close ties with the new prime minister, will also remain in office. Less fortunate was Minister of Urban Development of Armenia Samvel Tadevosyan, for whom even his escape from the beleaguered party did not save him from resignation. Declared by Bagdasaryan the motivation of an exit of party from the coalition is based on five factors, radically changed the situation in the country. Among them Serzh Sargsyan's refusal to run for president or apply for a post of the prime minister, planned constitutional reforms, the decision of the Constitutional Court on the law "On the Funded Pensions", the resignation and the formation of a new government.
Bagdasaryan remembered "divergences between the political vector and Serzh Sargsyan's vector" obviously in time, however, precisely not owing to "a set collected in Armenia and demanding immediate solution of problems".
The future "Orinats Yеrkir" and personally Bagdasaryana looks today foggy. Way into a coalition with the Republicans they are booked now and the only exit there is a consolidation with other parliamentary opposition. Baghdasaryan has already said that his party is ready to cooperate with the Quartet are powerless in the face of the ANC, "Dashnaktsutiun" and "Heritage" and "Prosperous Armenia". The question is whether his party would be a real opposition force or just once more "dilute" the opposition, which is going to present a united front against the Republican Party.
