Any serious political changes in Armenia require an emergency situation in the country, which Armenian political forces are not ready for, Stepan Safaryan, Head of the Heritage parliamentary faction, stated at a press briefing.

He stressed that any force majeure circumstances are possible in Armenia only due to external factors.

Eghishe Bisharyan, Chairwoman of the Country of Law parliamentary faction, does not expect any political passions this year. “Working, rather than political,  process will be violent,” she said.

Hrayr Karapetyan, the Chairman of the Standing Committee on Defense, National Security and Internal Affairs, MP of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF), does not expect much either. He is skeptical about the promises top “surprise the people” given by the Armenian National Congress (ANC). “I will really be surprised if the ANC leader Levon Ter-Petrosyan admits the Hay Dat demands and says they are in the Armenian people’s interests. Or, if he says that the Armenian-Turkish protocols were doomed to failure. But all this is unreal,” the MP said. Political forces must be realists and, before demanding a change of power, they must make sure of whether necessary prerequisites are available.

Aram Safaryan, Secretary of the Prosperous Armenia faction, does not expect any active political process this year. He thinks the parliamentary elections will be held on schedule, in the spring 2012, and the election campaign will start in the latter half of 2011 at the earliest. Chairwoman of the Committee for European Integration Naira Zohrabyan, refuted the mass media-circulated rumors about her appointment as Parliament vice-speaker.

Chairman of the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) faction Galust Sahakyan has no special expectations. “I think we’ve had a hotter political summer than the coming political autumn,” he said.