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Signs of Oligarchy's Agony
Naira Hayrumyan
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/comments25821.html
Published: 14:31:56 - 14/04/2012
The election process runs on two planes which cross from time to time. One
is the traditional criminal planes where the interests of Republicans and
Prosperous Armenia clash.
In Armenia all the recent elections took place on this plane. In 2008 Levon
Ter-Petrosyan tried to insert a new plane, the ideological plane, but faced
the strong resistance of the Republicans and the PAP which deployed the
best criminal arsenal against the Popular Movement.
Now the situation is a little different. First, the Republicans and PAP are
now rivals, and the criminal world is involved in a life and death battle.
The first victims are there. The Republican candidate used violence to
force his rival, while the future son-in-law of the mayor of Gyumri was
killed, and the mayor immediately blamed the PAP.
The chief of police Vova Gasparyan did not respond to violence in Armavir
but announced after Gyumri without investigation and trial that it was not
an assassination. In some aspects, he is right because the relations of the
two parties are difficult to describe as political. They are clear criminal
relations between clans. And it is not accidental that `political' fiction
often uses Ghukasyan family, Abrahamyan clan and other similar phrases.
Having grabbed all the national wealth during the war and the post-soviet
economic policy, these groups are not used to ideological struggle. In this
system murders are a frequently used method, and they always carry guns.
A different campaign is conducted by the Armenian National Congress, ARF
Dashnaktsutyun, Heritage and Free Democrats. The representatives of these
parties try to set forth ideological theses. And it is not important if
they are right or not. They are trying to shift the elections from the
criminal plane to the public plane where the criminal withers right away.
The criminal oligarchy refuses political debates. It is not a matter of
intellect. They are simply afraid of losing their only `political' weapon -
the gun. Their statements sound like hysterical shouts of free style fights
emitted to weaken the opponent's self-confidence. They understand elections
as free-style wrestling.
The representatives of the ideological politics do not reply and try to
drive them to the arena of political debate.
It is notable that a secretion of the criminal and ideological segment is
underway inside the PAP and the Republican Party. For example, Vartan
Oskanian's remarks intend to mould an ideological party out of the
inherently criminal one. A similar process is underway in the Republican
Party where supporters of political dialogue are many. Nevertheless, Serzh
Sargsyan is not ashamed of making calls for voting his supporters whose
hands are stained with blood.
Are these elections a chance to push the criminal from politics? For them,
false criminal honor is beyond human life. In normal politics, honor and
human life are other values.
Now it is obvious that the abrupt movements of the criminal are the result
of their agony. A criminal member of parliament who makes cynical
statements cannot feel how funny he looks.
The clash of the two planes - the ideological and criminal - may lead to
revolutionary change and if the criminal is able to keep its foothold firm,
its days in power are counter. That is the end when he looks funny for his
entourage.
From: A. Papazian
Naira Hayrumyan
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/comments25821.html
Published: 14:31:56 - 14/04/2012
The election process runs on two planes which cross from time to time. One
is the traditional criminal planes where the interests of Republicans and
Prosperous Armenia clash.
In Armenia all the recent elections took place on this plane. In 2008 Levon
Ter-Petrosyan tried to insert a new plane, the ideological plane, but faced
the strong resistance of the Republicans and the PAP which deployed the
best criminal arsenal against the Popular Movement.
Now the situation is a little different. First, the Republicans and PAP are
now rivals, and the criminal world is involved in a life and death battle.
The first victims are there. The Republican candidate used violence to
force his rival, while the future son-in-law of the mayor of Gyumri was
killed, and the mayor immediately blamed the PAP.
The chief of police Vova Gasparyan did not respond to violence in Armavir
but announced after Gyumri without investigation and trial that it was not
an assassination. In some aspects, he is right because the relations of the
two parties are difficult to describe as political. They are clear criminal
relations between clans. And it is not accidental that `political' fiction
often uses Ghukasyan family, Abrahamyan clan and other similar phrases.
Having grabbed all the national wealth during the war and the post-soviet
economic policy, these groups are not used to ideological struggle. In this
system murders are a frequently used method, and they always carry guns.
A different campaign is conducted by the Armenian National Congress, ARF
Dashnaktsutyun, Heritage and Free Democrats. The representatives of these
parties try to set forth ideological theses. And it is not important if
they are right or not. They are trying to shift the elections from the
criminal plane to the public plane where the criminal withers right away.
The criminal oligarchy refuses political debates. It is not a matter of
intellect. They are simply afraid of losing their only `political' weapon -
the gun. Their statements sound like hysterical shouts of free style fights
emitted to weaken the opponent's self-confidence. They understand elections
as free-style wrestling.
The representatives of the ideological politics do not reply and try to
drive them to the arena of political debate.
It is notable that a secretion of the criminal and ideological segment is
underway inside the PAP and the Republican Party. For example, Vartan
Oskanian's remarks intend to mould an ideological party out of the
inherently criminal one. A similar process is underway in the Republican
Party where supporters of political dialogue are many. Nevertheless, Serzh
Sargsyan is not ashamed of making calls for voting his supporters whose
hands are stained with blood.
Are these elections a chance to push the criminal from politics? For them,
false criminal honor is beyond human life. In normal politics, honor and
human life are other values.
Now it is obvious that the abrupt movements of the criminal are the result
of their agony. A criminal member of parliament who makes cynical
statements cannot feel how funny he looks.
The clash of the two planes - the ideological and criminal - may lead to
revolutionary change and if the criminal is able to keep its foothold firm,
its days in power are counter. That is the end when he looks funny for his
entourage.
From: A. Papazian