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BHP TO BECOME A CENTRAL FORCE
Naira Hayrumyan
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/country25136.html
Published: 11:41:05 - 15/02/2012
The coalition parties made a joint statement a few days ago on
competing with one another in the upcoming election in a civilized and
tolerant atmosphere. Does this mean the coalition parties are going
to compete with the other parties in an uncivilized and intolerant way?
The point is that the civilized methods of campaign should not be the
result of agreements between parties but the result of respect for
laws by the same parties. No Armenian law provides for "uncivilized"
methods of the election campaign.
Proceeding from this, it is necessary to state that the coalition
parties have just announced about the "division of property" in a
"civilized" way. Though the BHP representatives still affirm the
coalition memorandum is in force, we can state there is no ruling
coalition in Armenia.
This does not mean that after the election the parties will not be
allowed to enter into a new coalition but it will just be principally
different. Now the coalition does not have an ideological basis, it
is just a conglomerate of parties which were brought together around
Serzh Sargsyan's candidacy at the last election. No one can say what
the ideological orientation of the Prosperous Armenia party is and
what path it proposes.
Apparently, it has been decided to clarify the ideological platform
of the political tops of Armenia and to come up with a natural or
artificial political specter where every party will have its own niche.
Most probably, the Bargavach Hayastan Party intends to occupy a central
place which would allow it, on the one hand, not to go far from the
radical opposition "highness" and on the other hand, to differ from
the Republican Party which is getting less popular. Vardan Oskanian's
membership to the BHP is evidence that this party is adopting an
ideology.
Unlike other members of the party, including its leader Gagik
Tsarukyan, who have not proposed their programs of development,
Vartan Oskanian has worked out a political program both on domestic
and foreign affairs. Since his retirement, he has been criticizing
the present government moderately, without supporting the radical
opposition claiming full liberalization, as well as without walking
closer to the radical left-social trend.
The BHP program will most probably be based on this ideology. It will
announce about the necessity of de-monopolization of the economy, at
the same time, strengthening the social guarantees. Such an ideology
may receive the support of the larger part of the population since
radical lefts insist on the social policy at the expense of democratic
norms, and the radical rights insist on the development of a nation
state at the expense of the social policy.
On this arena, apart from the arena loyal to Robert Kocharyan,
the ARFD, which is a social party, may also form a block with the
BHP. And if this block succeeds entering the parliament together with
the Republicans and the Armenian National Congress, it can take the
vacant central niche.
Perhaps, the Western forces want to see a parliament with three
ideological poles in Armenia in return for assistance to Armenia.
Russia will not disagree with this either, which is "friends" with all
the three poles. Alas, the society does not propose anything better.
Anyway, the civil activists have not yet expressed an intention to
enter into politics and spell out their demands.
In this situation, the central force which will express readiness to
represent civil claims might earn a lot of political dividends.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
Naira Hayrumyan
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/country25136.html
Published: 11:41:05 - 15/02/2012
The coalition parties made a joint statement a few days ago on
competing with one another in the upcoming election in a civilized and
tolerant atmosphere. Does this mean the coalition parties are going
to compete with the other parties in an uncivilized and intolerant way?
The point is that the civilized methods of campaign should not be the
result of agreements between parties but the result of respect for
laws by the same parties. No Armenian law provides for "uncivilized"
methods of the election campaign.
Proceeding from this, it is necessary to state that the coalition
parties have just announced about the "division of property" in a
"civilized" way. Though the BHP representatives still affirm the
coalition memorandum is in force, we can state there is no ruling
coalition in Armenia.
This does not mean that after the election the parties will not be
allowed to enter into a new coalition but it will just be principally
different. Now the coalition does not have an ideological basis, it
is just a conglomerate of parties which were brought together around
Serzh Sargsyan's candidacy at the last election. No one can say what
the ideological orientation of the Prosperous Armenia party is and
what path it proposes.
Apparently, it has been decided to clarify the ideological platform
of the political tops of Armenia and to come up with a natural or
artificial political specter where every party will have its own niche.
Most probably, the Bargavach Hayastan Party intends to occupy a central
place which would allow it, on the one hand, not to go far from the
radical opposition "highness" and on the other hand, to differ from
the Republican Party which is getting less popular. Vardan Oskanian's
membership to the BHP is evidence that this party is adopting an
ideology.
Unlike other members of the party, including its leader Gagik
Tsarukyan, who have not proposed their programs of development,
Vartan Oskanian has worked out a political program both on domestic
and foreign affairs. Since his retirement, he has been criticizing
the present government moderately, without supporting the radical
opposition claiming full liberalization, as well as without walking
closer to the radical left-social trend.
The BHP program will most probably be based on this ideology. It will
announce about the necessity of de-monopolization of the economy, at
the same time, strengthening the social guarantees. Such an ideology
may receive the support of the larger part of the population since
radical lefts insist on the social policy at the expense of democratic
norms, and the radical rights insist on the development of a nation
state at the expense of the social policy.
On this arena, apart from the arena loyal to Robert Kocharyan,
the ARFD, which is a social party, may also form a block with the
BHP. And if this block succeeds entering the parliament together with
the Republicans and the Armenian National Congress, it can take the
vacant central niche.
Perhaps, the Western forces want to see a parliament with three
ideological poles in Armenia in return for assistance to Armenia.
Russia will not disagree with this either, which is "friends" with all
the three poles. Alas, the society does not propose anything better.
Anyway, the civil activists have not yet expressed an intention to
enter into politics and spell out their demands.
In this situation, the central force which will express readiness to
represent civil claims might earn a lot of political dividends.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress