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    WHO CAN OPEN THE LOOP
    HAKOB BADALYAN

    Story from Lragir.am News:
    http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/comments24104.html
    Published: 17:15:54 - 07/11/2011

    The election cycles in Armenia, or the related activities of the
    political forces remind a vicious circle or a loop. Once we view the
    elections since 1995-1996, we will notice that names, individuals,
    faces changed while the content is the same, and the governments of
    all times said the same thing in the same way, and the oppositions
    of all times also said the same thing in the same way. Not in the
    absolute sense, of course. There were changes and there will be more.

    After all, age and time always did and will have their influence.

    However, our activists get older while the political sphere shaped
    by them does not mature.

    The political sphere has recently appeared to understand this, and
    efforts to open this vicious circle have been made. In this sense,
    the elections in 2007-2008 were quite illustrative of this. In 2007,
    for instance, the Heritage Party tried to distinguish itself by some
    innovations in both manner and content of election campaign. In the
    same year, the government introduced the MIAK Party which also tried
    to act as a new type of political force, at first sight bringing
    up not so popular but very important issues, such as transition to
    contractual army, or other issues with a liberal philosophy.

    In 2008, the ARF Dashnaktsutyun tried some innovation, holding
    primaries. The ARF-D members were asked to make a choice between Vahan
    Hovhannisyan and Armen Rustamyan to nominate a presidential candidate.

    However, they failed to choose one of them until Armen Rustamyan
    withdrew and stated to support Hovhannisyan. Well, the party was not
    used to primaries, and the party members thought if they choose one
    of them, they will not have the face to look at the other.

    Apparently, the Armenian political forces do not succeed in their
    innovations because they make them out of political planning rather
    than inner belief, they make them for addressing certain political
    issues rather than to mature the political sphere.

    So, before the next election stage, the Armenian political sphere
    has found itself in a loop, and the only so-called innovation is
    that the loop has been diagnosed and defined as the triangle of the
    three presidents.

    Logically, "diagnosis" must be followed by treatment. Currently
    the definition is in place: the problem is the dominance of the
    "three presidents". Consequently, the political developments must be
    withdrawn from the triangle of the three presidents.

    Essentially, however, this triangle has not been imposed on Armenia.

    It has occurred in the so-called natural way. It reflects the
    modern reality in Armenia, its early and non-early historical and
    psychological roots which have personified the Armenian politics
    to an absolute extent. And here, already, a loop of one, or two,
    three, maybe four or five persons may occur. The difference is not
    big because the problem is not arithmetic but the withdrawal of the
    process from the persons, to ensure that persons maintain it, rather
    than it maintains persons.

    Levon Ter-Petrosyan, for instance, had almost opened the loop in
    2007-2008, having his personality serve the public. Later, however,
    the situation changed, the problems changed too, and thereby the
    correlation changed, and a great part of the society set to serve
    the personality policy.

    One of the main issues of the parliamentary elections in 2012 will
    be the U-turn of this correlation, returning from person or persons
    to the public, opening the loop, withdrawing the process from the
    "triangle", which may be helpful to the triangle too because it will
    stop being something like the Bermuda triangle, relieving the weight
    lying on the three triangles.

    Does the Armenian political sphere have this potential? Are there
    forces which can take on the mission of offering a new political
    activity, a new political text and a new political setting?


    From: Baghdasarian
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