Sharmazanov on not cooperating with BHK: “It is BHK-2” (video)
The cooperation of the Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) with the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) is not only for today. The NA Vice President Eduard Sharmazanov says, “Our cooperation with Dashnaktsutyun, supposes, the expected cooperation, if there is any cooperation, first of all supposes long-term cooperation having ideological basis.” Let only elections in 2017 show everyone their place, “Maybe the Republican Party will become an opposition, if the people don’t vote for us.” Buy why does the Republican Party cooperate with Dashnaktsutyun, which gained 5 percent votes in 2012, and not with the Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK), which gained 30 percent votes? “It is another BHK, it is BHK-2, it was one party with Gagik Tsarukyan, and another party without Gagik Tsarukyan.” BHK faction member Mikael Melkumyan agrees it isn’t 2012, besides after the events in February of last year, when Gagik Tsarukyan left the BHK, the situation changed, “Now you don’t have charismatic leader, now we have influence, but pretend that nothing has changed and we have the same chance, of course, no.” Maybe for the same reason the Republican Party isn’t interested in the BHK anymore. “It is controversial, who is interested and who isn’t,” replies Mikeal Melkumyan. Mikael Melkumyan knows that today the BHK has rating and will surely enter into parliament in 2017; he can say how votes are distributed in Armenia, “30 percent out of 100 takes money, another 30 percent listens to the village headman, another 20 percent is administrative resource.” By the way, the BHK lawmaker refrained from saying whether Dashnaktsutyun will benefit from the cooperation with the Republican Party or will lose.
