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IS OSKANIAN "RINSING" PAST?
HAKOB BADALYAN
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/comments25769.html
Published: 10:41:03 - 11/04/2012
Free and fair elections in Armenia have never been as crucial as now.
At the same time, the possibility to hold such elections has never
been so big either, said Vartan Oskanian, N 2 on Prosperous Armenia
Party list, in a meeting with voters in Shengavit community of Yerevan.
By the way, the interesting thing is that Vartan Oskanian met with
the voters without Gagik Tsarukyan. Tsarukyan was campaigning in
Kotayk region.
It is interesting to follow and see whether the separate meetings
of Oskanian and Tsarukyan with the voters, an appreciable feature of
their campaign, will be continuous, a PAP campaign strategy because it
may be an indicator of an interesting situation inside the Prosperous
Armenia Party.
As to Vartan Oskanian's aforementioned statement, it impossible
to disagree with Oskanian because, in fact, after each fraudulent
election in Armenia the next election acquires a crucial importance.
However, the pronouncement that now we have a good chance to hold
free and fair elections seems to be aimed at "rinsing" the previous
election.
We have an interesting internal situation in place which could help
eliminate the principles of "predictability" of the elections when
the RPA victory was doubtless. But perhaps there is no need to hurry
and evaluate this possibility as an unprecedented one.
The opportunities for free and fair elections are relative and ideas
on them are individual. Even though we have four vs. one, still it
is not a guarantee to free and fair elections because mildly speaking
those four have relative ideas on freedom and justice.
For instance, has Prosperous Armenia followed the free and fair path
in politics which still accompanies the unfree and unfair RPA in
the power?
So, perhaps it is not necessary to draw a line of division between the
upcoming and previous elections because one of the measures of honesty
of the forces running for parliament is the separation between both
elections. In this regard, any line between the present and the past,
even the most insignificant one, will be false and is conjuncture. All
the political forces need to avoid lines. The present and the past
is a single line in Armenia which must be cut in order to advance.
If there is any line to be drawn in Armenia, it is the one between
the Constitution and reality to leave the latter on the other side
of the line and to bring the Constitution to reality.
HAKOB BADALYAN
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/comments25769.html
Published: 10:41:03 - 11/04/2012
Free and fair elections in Armenia have never been as crucial as now.
At the same time, the possibility to hold such elections has never
been so big either, said Vartan Oskanian, N 2 on Prosperous Armenia
Party list, in a meeting with voters in Shengavit community of Yerevan.
By the way, the interesting thing is that Vartan Oskanian met with
the voters without Gagik Tsarukyan. Tsarukyan was campaigning in
Kotayk region.
It is interesting to follow and see whether the separate meetings
of Oskanian and Tsarukyan with the voters, an appreciable feature of
their campaign, will be continuous, a PAP campaign strategy because it
may be an indicator of an interesting situation inside the Prosperous
Armenia Party.
As to Vartan Oskanian's aforementioned statement, it impossible
to disagree with Oskanian because, in fact, after each fraudulent
election in Armenia the next election acquires a crucial importance.
However, the pronouncement that now we have a good chance to hold
free and fair elections seems to be aimed at "rinsing" the previous
election.
We have an interesting internal situation in place which could help
eliminate the principles of "predictability" of the elections when
the RPA victory was doubtless. But perhaps there is no need to hurry
and evaluate this possibility as an unprecedented one.
The opportunities for free and fair elections are relative and ideas
on them are individual. Even though we have four vs. one, still it
is not a guarantee to free and fair elections because mildly speaking
those four have relative ideas on freedom and justice.
For instance, has Prosperous Armenia followed the free and fair path
in politics which still accompanies the unfree and unfair RPA in
the power?
So, perhaps it is not necessary to draw a line of division between the
upcoming and previous elections because one of the measures of honesty
of the forces running for parliament is the separation between both
elections. In this regard, any line between the present and the past,
even the most insignificant one, will be false and is conjuncture. All
the political forces need to avoid lines. The present and the past
is a single line in Armenia which must be cut in order to advance.
If there is any line to be drawn in Armenia, it is the one between
the Constitution and reality to leave the latter on the other side
of the line and to bring the Constitution to reality.