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No full-fledged parties in Armenia - opposition rep
TERT.AM
11:04 - 22.08.12
>From 1991, Armenia's authorities tried to make political parties
easily controllable.
During the first years of independence it was not so conspicuous,
whereas later, from 1995-'96, the authorities were overtly pursuing
this policy. The process of `spoiling and privatizing' political
parties has reached its final stage, and the ruling regime is not at
all concealing the fact, Zhirair Sefilyan, founder of the Sardarapat
movement, told Tert.am.
The last of the numerous examples is Armenia's ex-minister of state
revenue Smbat Aivazyan, who left the opposition bloc Armenian National
Congress (ANC), and is not going to leave the Republic party.
`During the 2013 presidential pseudo-election campaign, the ruling
regime will be splitting Armenia's so-called political arena. As a
result, a dozen presidential candidates on the one hand, and incumbent
President Serzh Sargsyan on the other hand - and a predicted `victory'
by the regime's candidate after the first ballot,' Sefilyan said. This
does not mean, however, that Serzh Sargsyan will remain Armenia's
president for another five years, he added.
None of Armenia's political parties is a full-fledged one. `With a few
exceptions, people engaged in politics are traders. Politics is a
business program of personal well-being for them. This plays into the
authorities' hands, and political relations and ideologies are turned
into `cash-and-prize' relations.'
Since it was formed, the Sardaparat movement has been stating that
`there will be a political way of getting of this regime. That is, a
new arena, which is being formed by civil initiatives.'
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
TERT.AM
11:04 - 22.08.12
>From 1991, Armenia's authorities tried to make political parties
easily controllable.
During the first years of independence it was not so conspicuous,
whereas later, from 1995-'96, the authorities were overtly pursuing
this policy. The process of `spoiling and privatizing' political
parties has reached its final stage, and the ruling regime is not at
all concealing the fact, Zhirair Sefilyan, founder of the Sardarapat
movement, told Tert.am.
The last of the numerous examples is Armenia's ex-minister of state
revenue Smbat Aivazyan, who left the opposition bloc Armenian National
Congress (ANC), and is not going to leave the Republic party.
`During the 2013 presidential pseudo-election campaign, the ruling
regime will be splitting Armenia's so-called political arena. As a
result, a dozen presidential candidates on the one hand, and incumbent
President Serzh Sargsyan on the other hand - and a predicted `victory'
by the regime's candidate after the first ballot,' Sefilyan said. This
does not mean, however, that Serzh Sargsyan will remain Armenia's
president for another five years, he added.
None of Armenia's political parties is a full-fledged one. `With a few
exceptions, people engaged in politics are traders. Politics is a
business program of personal well-being for them. This plays into the
authorities' hands, and political relations and ideologies are turned
into `cash-and-prize' relations.'
Since it was formed, the Sardaparat movement has been stating that
`there will be a political way of getting of this regime. That is, a
new arena, which is being formed by civil initiatives.'
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress