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SERZH SARGSYAN'S INEVITABLE "MERIT"
HAKOB BADALYAN
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/comments25464.html
Published: 11:01:32 - 16/03/2012
Spokesman for the Republican Party Eduard Sharmazanov says it is not
bad to nominate businessmen in constituencies.
No one says businessman is bad. Simply the Constitution states that
a businessman is not eligible for parliament. In the meantime, the
Republican Party promotes a candidate who resigned from the position
of Chief of Staff of the president's administration to run his business
and not to deal with politics anymore.
Karen Karapetyan will run for parliament in Tashir Town and will
become Member of Parliament. Karen Karapetyan did not say anything
about returning to politics.
The presence of businessmen-MPs is not good or bad, it is a violation
of the Constitution, as well as renouncement of political statements
and principles.
Since the lack of respect for the society is at least ridiculous when
Serzh and Tigran Sargsyans are determined not to include businessmen
in the Republican Party list of the RPA but nominate them in the
constituency.
It means they are fooling the society, they think people do not
understand the tactics of the government.
Meanwhile, this tactics is not only clear but also simple. The party
list was made to imitate changes and reserve the constituencies to
build up the trust of the criminal and oligarchic system and not to
let them rebel against the power.
Actually, Serzh Sargsyan failed to solve the issue of removing
oligarchs from government. In fact, he could have solved it during
his first term, especially if he is not entwined with the system at
the roots.
Serzh Sargsyan failed. During his first term he could have established
the internal balance of powers. It seems to be in place. There is an
apparent competition between the wings of the government. It is not
only about the RPA-PAP race but the internal political competition,
in general.
Serzh Sargsyan did not ensure this competition and it did not
occur upon his will. This competition was enabled by the public and
political situation during his tenure. Perhaps, Serzh Sargsyan's
"merit" is that he did not hinder those trends and perhaps the public
and international developments prevented him.
The result was a clash of interests inside the government in which
the awareness of public interest is acquiring more importance. It
may be a veil of fight for the government and oligarchs but the
government's frequent references to public interests indicates a
change of the situation.
No doubt the public interest will gradually transform from being a
veil into a necessity. The upcoming parliamentary election will most
probably come to "seal" this situation.
It has no direct relationship to the public and state interest but
when there is not an influential process related to interests, it is
perhaps good that new processes started, new groups appeared inside
the government which refer to the public interest at least in the
framework of the internal fight in the government and prefer public
mechanisms of force and violence as a tool.
It is also up to the society to benefit from it. And it is a positive
fact that crucial processes are happening within the society which
have no purpose to benefit from the internal governmental situation.
This is an independent process based on public awareness, uplifting
of ideas, progress of information technologies but this fact provides
the possibility to use the clash of interests for public and state
interests.
The parliamentary elections will not put an end or finalize this
but will launch a new stage. Though the parliamentary elections are
apparently very sad and hopeless, they will make the trend irreversible
during Serzh Sargsyan's first term. The next 4 to 5 years will be
spent on the institutionalization of these trends.
HAKOB BADALYAN
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/comments25464.html
Published: 11:01:32 - 16/03/2012
Spokesman for the Republican Party Eduard Sharmazanov says it is not
bad to nominate businessmen in constituencies.
No one says businessman is bad. Simply the Constitution states that
a businessman is not eligible for parliament. In the meantime, the
Republican Party promotes a candidate who resigned from the position
of Chief of Staff of the president's administration to run his business
and not to deal with politics anymore.
Karen Karapetyan will run for parliament in Tashir Town and will
become Member of Parliament. Karen Karapetyan did not say anything
about returning to politics.
The presence of businessmen-MPs is not good or bad, it is a violation
of the Constitution, as well as renouncement of political statements
and principles.
Since the lack of respect for the society is at least ridiculous when
Serzh and Tigran Sargsyans are determined not to include businessmen
in the Republican Party list of the RPA but nominate them in the
constituency.
It means they are fooling the society, they think people do not
understand the tactics of the government.
Meanwhile, this tactics is not only clear but also simple. The party
list was made to imitate changes and reserve the constituencies to
build up the trust of the criminal and oligarchic system and not to
let them rebel against the power.
Actually, Serzh Sargsyan failed to solve the issue of removing
oligarchs from government. In fact, he could have solved it during
his first term, especially if he is not entwined with the system at
the roots.
Serzh Sargsyan failed. During his first term he could have established
the internal balance of powers. It seems to be in place. There is an
apparent competition between the wings of the government. It is not
only about the RPA-PAP race but the internal political competition,
in general.
Serzh Sargsyan did not ensure this competition and it did not
occur upon his will. This competition was enabled by the public and
political situation during his tenure. Perhaps, Serzh Sargsyan's
"merit" is that he did not hinder those trends and perhaps the public
and international developments prevented him.
The result was a clash of interests inside the government in which
the awareness of public interest is acquiring more importance. It
may be a veil of fight for the government and oligarchs but the
government's frequent references to public interests indicates a
change of the situation.
No doubt the public interest will gradually transform from being a
veil into a necessity. The upcoming parliamentary election will most
probably come to "seal" this situation.
It has no direct relationship to the public and state interest but
when there is not an influential process related to interests, it is
perhaps good that new processes started, new groups appeared inside
the government which refer to the public interest at least in the
framework of the internal fight in the government and prefer public
mechanisms of force and violence as a tool.
It is also up to the society to benefit from it. And it is a positive
fact that crucial processes are happening within the society which
have no purpose to benefit from the internal governmental situation.
This is an independent process based on public awareness, uplifting
of ideas, progress of information technologies but this fact provides
the possibility to use the clash of interests for public and state
interests.
The parliamentary elections will not put an end or finalize this
but will launch a new stage. Though the parliamentary elections are
apparently very sad and hopeless, they will make the trend irreversible
during Serzh Sargsyan's first term. The next 4 to 5 years will be
spent on the institutionalization of these trends.