Aram Amatuni, in his political analysis, mentions Oskanian’s post Facebook have quite a direct message about the PAP in the upcoming presidential elections. Oskanian writes that even though Tsarukyan proposed his name to be discussed as a probable candidate for the presidential elections, Tsarukyan himself enjoys the people’s trust and at the same time there is a need both for the people and the political powers to bring the public together and get the country out of the current state. A joint presidential candidate would be an option too, states Oskanian. On the one hand Oskanian speeks about Tsarukyan’s candidacy as a demand from the marzes and local institutions and states the latter’s probable candidacy, on the other hand speaks about coming up with a joint presidential candidate obviously hinting at himself which, Oskanian assumes, will be quite a permissible option.
Amatuni states no matter how people-oriented Tsarukyan’s activities is and no matter how much he enjoy’s public support, Tsarukyan is an oligarch and could not become a billionaire in Armenia otherwise. Amatuni highlights the immense difficulty of the ANC and ARF supporting Tsarukyan. It is one thing to cooperate with the political views Tsarukyan represents via his party, but quite another thing to directly support the latter as a presidential candidate.
Amatuni describes Oskanian state as a most convenient middle for both cases. Oskanyan is neutral for opposition, civilized and is capable of expressing his political ideology, has worked as a MFA and has the status of a political imprisoned. All this makes it easier for Levon Ter-Petrosyan to support Oskanian. Amatuni takes into consideration Ter-Petrosyan’s conference on Oskanyan’s case which the political analyst views as a preliminary step towards the probable agreement.
Amatuni concludes his analysis by summing that Oskanian proposes either of the two: either Tsarukyan puts his candidacy for the president and takes the responsibility of the opposition split, since it is least possible an oligarch were supported by the ANC and ARF, this, in its turn, or proposes Oskanian’s candidacy which implies Kocharyan will be the frontier in this matter who will not only head de facto the PAP but almost the whole opposition. Oskanian increases the pressure on Tsarukyan by means of Kocharyan.
