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DIRECTOR OF ACNIS: IT'S TIME TO REVISE THE FORMS OF POLITICAL ACTIVITY IN ARMENIA
arminfo
Friday, January 13, 21:14
It is time to revise the forms of political activity, which are
obviously not successful in Armenia, Director of the Armenian Center
for National and International Studies, Manvel Sargsyan, told ArmInfo.
"For twenty years any revolt of the people in Armenia has been managed
by political forces, and there has never arisen the question whether
this is right or whether there is an alternative. Since we constantly
set the task to change the power, convincing ourselves that system
changes in Armenia are possible in that case only, we should see the
results or at least try to think why nothing comes of it. Moreover,
the whole XX century was a period of examples of such experience, and
one should also cast a glance at our movement of 1988-1991", he said.
The analyst thinks that the parties are unable to implement changes
with the help of the people, and the changes in the elite have failed
to introduce any essential changes in public life. In the meantime,
no serious surveys were conducted, and the public was not even told
what the political forces mean by system changes. Only change of
power was implied, nothing else.
In this context, Sargsyan thinks that one should understand
what system we have and what system the society wants to create,
"especially in Armenia, where they very often speak of "restoration of
the constitutional regime", i.e. of something which has never existed
in Armenia. Now the society of Armenia is seriously thinking how to
build a constitutional and legal state - one of the most developed
state formations in the world", Sargsyan said.
According to the expert, any system change is a revolution, no
matter how the public dislikes this word and thinks that revolution
means seizure of buildings. Meanwhile, nobody seized buildings
in the countries, which made a democratic revolution. It is done
in a different way, by means of an ultimatum on the basis of the
written provisions of the Constitution. It was by means of big
losses and hardships that the people of these countries forced their
administrations to hold free elections.
The force saying that a velvet revolution should occur in Armenia
should demonstrate the road map of the revolution, he said. The public
should know how the revolution will be made. "And when such a road
map appears, the specified force should say that it will be dissolved
after the revolution and will not participate in the elections. The
public should know this now to trust these politicians", Sargsyan said.
From: A. Papazian
arminfo
Friday, January 13, 21:14
It is time to revise the forms of political activity, which are
obviously not successful in Armenia, Director of the Armenian Center
for National and International Studies, Manvel Sargsyan, told ArmInfo.
"For twenty years any revolt of the people in Armenia has been managed
by political forces, and there has never arisen the question whether
this is right or whether there is an alternative. Since we constantly
set the task to change the power, convincing ourselves that system
changes in Armenia are possible in that case only, we should see the
results or at least try to think why nothing comes of it. Moreover,
the whole XX century was a period of examples of such experience, and
one should also cast a glance at our movement of 1988-1991", he said.
The analyst thinks that the parties are unable to implement changes
with the help of the people, and the changes in the elite have failed
to introduce any essential changes in public life. In the meantime,
no serious surveys were conducted, and the public was not even told
what the political forces mean by system changes. Only change of
power was implied, nothing else.
In this context, Sargsyan thinks that one should understand
what system we have and what system the society wants to create,
"especially in Armenia, where they very often speak of "restoration of
the constitutional regime", i.e. of something which has never existed
in Armenia. Now the society of Armenia is seriously thinking how to
build a constitutional and legal state - one of the most developed
state formations in the world", Sargsyan said.
According to the expert, any system change is a revolution, no
matter how the public dislikes this word and thinks that revolution
means seizure of buildings. Meanwhile, nobody seized buildings
in the countries, which made a democratic revolution. It is done
in a different way, by means of an ultimatum on the basis of the
written provisions of the Constitution. It was by means of big
losses and hardships that the people of these countries forced their
administrations to hold free elections.
The force saying that a velvet revolution should occur in Armenia
should demonstrate the road map of the revolution, he said. The public
should know how the revolution will be made. "And when such a road
map appears, the specified force should say that it will be dissolved
after the revolution and will not participate in the elections. The
public should know this now to trust these politicians", Sargsyan said.
From: A. Papazian