Referring to the tendency in Georgia to have two-party system, analyst Aram Amatuni in his article published on “First Armenian News and Analysis” discusses the possibility of the adoption of the same system in Armenia and its consequences. “After the final results of Georgian elections it turns out that Georgia is guided by the politics of two-party system. These estimates were somehow projected in Armenia as well. Such an observation was made by the former FM of Armenia, PAP member Vartan Oskanian.”
Aram Amatuni makes it clear that these two poles in Armenia are Armenian Republican party and Prosperous Armenia party. “Being two branches of a single political-economic realm, they share the system between each other creating rules and regulations as well as “free and just” elections. For the sake of the above mentioned aim, they have to marginalize the rest of the political field. Such marginalization is being successfully done. Even strict oppositional post of ANC was distracted by PAP. ”
The analyst notes that the idea of bipolar system seems to be appreciated by external powers as well. Such an example is the mediation of the ambassador of US to Armenia Mrs. Jovanovich, who denied her assistance to hold negotiation between Armenian National Congress and Serzh Sargsyan, but the attempt failed, reminds Amatuni.
“The negotiations between ARP and Congress failed, as PAP would never get used to being out of game as the second strongest power of authorities. Moreover, if we observe Robert Kocharyan’s political aspirations, it is more than clear that Congress-Serzh Sargsyan negotiations were destined to fail. As a result Congress was pushed back.”
Aram Amatuni explains that today Serzh Sargsyan isn’t apt to share anything with PAP, because Serzh Sargsyan’s “environment” called ARP comprises heterogeneous powers with various aims and interests, that’s why they are not able to efficiently share anything with a party which is comparably more stable. “It will be better for Serzh Sargsyan to set up the “second pole” anew by himself, that means to create a new power consisting of his proponents, an alternative oppositional pole instead of PAP.”
The analyst clears out that PAP is sure to feel the threat of marginalization, that’s why they try to keep their state of the second pole as long as possible.
Two-party system is considered the best option for countries of post-soviet transformation being a sample of more transparent system.
The matter is that public must have a key role, and the second pole must be set up based on civil, modern public, not on criminal-oligarchic mass.
