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LET BAKO HAVE NO COMPETITORS
Naira Hayrumyan
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/comments25212.html
Published: 13:29:01 - 22/02/2012
The next presidential elections in Karabakh are scheduled in summer.
For the time being, only the ex-mayor of Stepanakert, Eduard Aghabekyan
has spelled out his intention to run for president who positions
himself as moderate opposition. The acting president Bako Sahakyan has
not made any statement, but most likely, will run for the second term.
Bako Sahakyan's main political trend during these years has been the
creation of homogeneous political field, marshy public opinion and
lack of alternative in everything. Any attempt to issue a different
opinion was qualified as high treason and a try to split the Karabakh
society through the "dark forces".
In the result of this policy, in May 2010, unprecedented and undisputed
elections were held in Karabakh in which the opposition forces could
not run. This was the reason why Freedom House ranked Karabakh as a
non-free country it has always been ranked as partly free.
On the eve of the presidential elections, judging by the present
tendencies, the zombie policy will be carried on. Evidence to this
was the statement of the spokesman for the president of Karabakh,
David Babayan, who connected the criticism against Bako Sahakyan with
"the machinations of the enemies". In regard to criticism for Bako
Sahakyan's statement about readiness for concessions, David Babayan
somehow said that it is related to the upcoming presidential and
parliamentary elections in Karabakh and Armenia.
"Certain so-called political scientists exaggerate the allegations that
the president of Nagorno Karabakh spoke about possible unilateral
concessions to Azerbaijan before the decision of the Karabakh's
status. This is a lie which pursues a number of political goals,"
Babayan said.
Noting that thanks to Bako Sahakyan, expressions like "return of
territories", "buffer zone", "territories controlled by Armenia" were
forgotten and now these territories are perceived as an inseparable
part of NKR, Babayan said that the critics are trying to get personal
"political gains through blackening their political opponents". "They
are trying to harm the rating of the president of Artsakh, as
well as use Karabakh to influence the political field of Armenia,"
Babayan said.
Afterwards, it remains only to wish uncontested elections to Bako
Sahakyan. Let him have no competitors, let no one risk thinking that
Bako Sahakyan can be wrong, let no one think, as doctors in Karabakh
say, that thinking is bad for health.
From: Baghdasarian
Naira Hayrumyan
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/comments25212.html
Published: 13:29:01 - 22/02/2012
The next presidential elections in Karabakh are scheduled in summer.
For the time being, only the ex-mayor of Stepanakert, Eduard Aghabekyan
has spelled out his intention to run for president who positions
himself as moderate opposition. The acting president Bako Sahakyan has
not made any statement, but most likely, will run for the second term.
Bako Sahakyan's main political trend during these years has been the
creation of homogeneous political field, marshy public opinion and
lack of alternative in everything. Any attempt to issue a different
opinion was qualified as high treason and a try to split the Karabakh
society through the "dark forces".
In the result of this policy, in May 2010, unprecedented and undisputed
elections were held in Karabakh in which the opposition forces could
not run. This was the reason why Freedom House ranked Karabakh as a
non-free country it has always been ranked as partly free.
On the eve of the presidential elections, judging by the present
tendencies, the zombie policy will be carried on. Evidence to this
was the statement of the spokesman for the president of Karabakh,
David Babayan, who connected the criticism against Bako Sahakyan with
"the machinations of the enemies". In regard to criticism for Bako
Sahakyan's statement about readiness for concessions, David Babayan
somehow said that it is related to the upcoming presidential and
parliamentary elections in Karabakh and Armenia.
"Certain so-called political scientists exaggerate the allegations that
the president of Nagorno Karabakh spoke about possible unilateral
concessions to Azerbaijan before the decision of the Karabakh's
status. This is a lie which pursues a number of political goals,"
Babayan said.
Noting that thanks to Bako Sahakyan, expressions like "return of
territories", "buffer zone", "territories controlled by Armenia" were
forgotten and now these territories are perceived as an inseparable
part of NKR, Babayan said that the critics are trying to get personal
"political gains through blackening their political opponents". "They
are trying to harm the rating of the president of Artsakh, as
well as use Karabakh to influence the political field of Armenia,"
Babayan said.
Afterwards, it remains only to wish uncontested elections to Bako
Sahakyan. Let him have no competitors, let no one risk thinking that
Bako Sahakyan can be wrong, let no one think, as doctors in Karabakh
say, that thinking is bad for health.
From: Baghdasarian