After the session of the executive committee of the Republican party Eduard Sharmazanov announced, this time already with the participation of Serzh Sargsyan, that Robert Kocharyan backs the PAP.
As the political analyst Musa Mikayelyan writes in his article, the ANC feels left aside by the PAP and tries its best to draw the latter’s attention to the presidential elections instead of discussing the parliamentary governing which the PAP has been declaring to be the best way to run the country. Mikayelyan brings Sharmazanov’s point that the ANC is a short-term political plan and that the Republican party is not going to intervene in order to split the PAP and the ANC. As the analyst elaborates, the nominal value of the PAP remains the same in case it is supported by the ANC and the power it possesses remains unchanged.
The PAP in its turn manages to gather such political powers as the ARF, “Heritage” and other small unities and in case Sargsyan manages to solve the issue with the PAP, he will automatically eliminate the adjacent political powers. As Mikayelyan concludes, the consolidation of other political fractions around the PAP is within the Republican Party’s interests and that is the reason Sargsyan does not intervene to disrupt the situation. With this step, as the analyst states, Sargsyan uses the PAP for his own interests.
