YEREVAN. - For 2011 the main domestic political achievement for Armenia is the presence of real competition, political scientist Sergey Minasyan stated during an interview to Armenian News-NEWS.am.

“The absence of any consolidation in the governing and the opposition forces prove that there is real competition among governing forces and among opposition forces as well. At one side there is a significant factor - Armenian National Congress. Also there are other not less significant opposition forces fighting to become main opposition player,” the expert said.

According to Minasyan, another competition is beginning among the governing coalition members. There is also competition among groups in ruling Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) itself. There are different interest areas inside the RPA and the elections of parliament speaker and vice-parliament speaker showed that.

Talking about the parliamentary elections of 2012 the political scientist mentioned that it will be an interesting and active campaign, sometimes with scandalous political processes which are peculiar for a country with a real competition for power.

“I guess that the political field will be cleared from oligarchs,” Minasyan concluded.