Current Regime can be Compared with a Two-Headed Dragon: Zurabyan

There is a rather big difference between the current situation and the shift in authority in 1998, Armenian National Congress (HAK) coordinator Levon Zurabyan said at a press conference today.

According to Zurabyan, in 1998, there didn’t exist such a powerful and unified opposition as there is today. In his opinion, despite being part and parcel of a political system whereby they can hold governing authorities responsible, today’s opposition doesn’t reduce the challenges the RA President Serzh Sargsyan is facing both inside the regime led by him and abroad.

Referring to the talks on disagreements between the Republic of Armenia’s second president Robert Kocharian and current president Serzh Sargsyan, Zurabyan said that the current regime can be compared with a two-headed dragon with Kocharian as one head and Sargsyan, the other.

In his words, regardless of how much the two heads of this dragon may verbally assault each other, the dragon will altogether remain in its same place as such. HAK’s main task is to get rid of that dragon.

Zurabyan also mentioned that all the talk about Sargsyan and Kocharian having disagreements over the Nagorno-Karabakh (NKR) issue are not true. In Zurabyan’s opinion, Kocharian has never criticized Sargsyan’s NKR policy.

Head of Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) Bureau's Hay Dat and Political Affairs Office Kiro Manoyan, in turn, referred to the theme of shift in authority, saying that he does not see any prerequisite for such a shift.

Firstly, according to Manoyan, there are no such figures in Sargsyan’s entourage who would impel him to resignation. Secondly, Sargsyan himself will not resign given the circumstances.