“Haykakan Zhamanak” reports the example of Gagik Tsarukyan to keep silent up to the last moment was infectious and if previously people were anticipating the PAP leader to announce his decision, now it is time for the ANC to make people wait because there seems to be an oath for silence in the ANC as well.
The spokesman of the ANC Arman Musinyan stated that there were discussions in the ANC political session where the new political state of the country before the elections was being considered and that their decision would be clear as soon as the discussions were over. Levon Zurabyan did not want to comment on any of the asked questions. This it becomes clear the ANC will probably tell its decision on the very last moment.
It is obvious to the public that after it was clear Tsarukyan withdrew from his candidacy Levon Ter-Petrosyan is the only one to be proposed as an opposition and if this does not happen, the outcome of the elections causes no doubt to anyone.
It is also obvious that Raffi Hovhannisian is not the opposition leader who could mobilize great powers around and lead the civic society behind him. But as some trustworthy sources of some media mention Ter-Petrosyan will be nominated while when one looks at the policy and the current state of the ANC, it becomes understandable that Ter-Petrosyan does not want to be proposed as a candidate. “Haykakan Zhamanak” states there is no point in devastating the political arena in the country this cardinally and absolutely no sense in letting the incumbent government have a second term so easily.
The ANC seems not to be responding to any questions the journalists would be eager to ask and “Haykakan Zhamanak” presents a number of questions, which would be better to have their answers from the ANC representatives> the questions go as follows: what is the reason the political state of the country is so devastated and what happened to the powerful movement started in 2008? Is it right to leave the incumbent government without a respectable opposition? What was the reason to waste so much time on political consultations if it were clear the PAP would not participate in the elections? What are the steps the ANC will undertake to prevent the already known outcome of the elections? And finally was there someone in the ANC to think that an oligarch who had accumulated too much wealth and was subject to criminal liability at any moment could decide on his own without letting Sargsyan know about it?
