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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
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