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    Aren't the Armenian Presidential Elections Approaching?

    16:21, December 9, 2012

    The 2013 Armenian presidential elections are two months away but no one
    seems to be talking about them. There is no single candidate from a united
    opposition because none of the parties can seem to agree on a five-year
    agenda.

    ARF-Dashnaktsutyun brings forth commendable proposals-separate big business
    from government, keep an independent judiciary and have a so-called
    `parliamentary republic,' stripping the president of certain powers for the
    National Assembly to rule on. None of the other parties agree, but
    regardless, the ARF doesn't have a candidate and their PR tactics have
    traditionally been abysmal.

    No one is discussing how to combat emigration and the never-ending brain
    drain, an aggravating issue that should be at the top of anyone's to-do
    list. The other day the Minister of Education Armen Ashotyan, a Republican,
    publically stated that *young scientists are better off leaving
    Armenia*
    because
    it's better for the nation to have them working abroad, the logic of that
    mindset has yet to dawn on me. A minister is justifying emigration as being
    a necessary occurrence-anyone else find that odd? I haven't read or heard a
    rebuttal from the opposition.

    http://hetq.am/eng/news/21384/aren%E2%80%99t-the-armenian-presidential-elections-approaching?.html




    From: A. Papazian
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