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The Prime Minister Shouldn't Run The Anticorruption Council
http://www.arfd.info/2012/11/01/the-prime-minister-shouldnt-run-the-anticorruption-council/
November 1, 2012
The `through surgical intervention' anticorruption struggle should
lead to jail and not to discharge stated ARF-D Member of Parliament,
Vahan Hovhannesyan in response to Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan's
call addressed to the oppositional political parties to join the
anticorruption struggle. Hovhannesyan reminded that ARF-D had proposed
a legislative measure in order to have a non-authoritative body within
the authorities. `The accountable and the controller cannot be
combined in the same person. This means that the Council must
separated from the government' he said in regard to the fact that the
Prime Minister is heading the Anticorruption Council.
Hovhannesyan's conviction is that the most effective way to fight
corruption is by giving that jurisdiction to the opposition. `Who has
more interest in finding, revealing and preventing the authorities
from making mistakes? The opposition. And when it does so, then the
government has more interest in not making mistakes and in not burying
itself under corruption. I think this would be the right way. But the
Prime Minister's discontent about the level of the anticorruption
struggle today, gives hope that they might see the way I've pointed
out and reach the right decision' he said. Hovhannesyan doesn't
examine whether this is a pre-electoral move or not, he believes that
any step aiming at the welfare of the people is appreciated regardless
of its timing. The results will be shown later. Still, Hovhannesyan
sees a progress; if in the past, the government would welcome with
bayonets the statements that spoke of corruption in the country,
nowadays the government has become `more universal than the
opposition' when it comes to talking about this issue, he concluded.
http://www.arfd.info/2012/11/01/the-prime-minister-shouldnt-run-the-anticorruption-council/
November 1, 2012
The `through surgical intervention' anticorruption struggle should
lead to jail and not to discharge stated ARF-D Member of Parliament,
Vahan Hovhannesyan in response to Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan's
call addressed to the oppositional political parties to join the
anticorruption struggle. Hovhannesyan reminded that ARF-D had proposed
a legislative measure in order to have a non-authoritative body within
the authorities. `The accountable and the controller cannot be
combined in the same person. This means that the Council must
separated from the government' he said in regard to the fact that the
Prime Minister is heading the Anticorruption Council.
Hovhannesyan's conviction is that the most effective way to fight
corruption is by giving that jurisdiction to the opposition. `Who has
more interest in finding, revealing and preventing the authorities
from making mistakes? The opposition. And when it does so, then the
government has more interest in not making mistakes and in not burying
itself under corruption. I think this would be the right way. But the
Prime Minister's discontent about the level of the anticorruption
struggle today, gives hope that they might see the way I've pointed
out and reach the right decision' he said. Hovhannesyan doesn't
examine whether this is a pre-electoral move or not, he believes that
any step aiming at the welfare of the people is appreciated regardless
of its timing. The results will be shown later. Still, Hovhannesyan
sees a progress; if in the past, the government would welcome with
bayonets the statements that spoke of corruption in the country,
nowadays the government has become `more universal than the
opposition' when it comes to talking about this issue, he concluded.