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CRIMINAL OLIGARCHY WILL PROSPER ANYWAY
Siranuysh Papyan
http://www.lragir.am/index.php/eng/0/interview/view/28019
Interview - Monday, 12 November 2012, 15:16
Interview with Tigran Khzmalyan, filmmaker, member of Sardarapat
Movement Initiative Group
Mr. Khzmalyan, what is your opinion on the PAP's proposal on
parliamentary government and the decision of other parties to support
this proposal?
Generally, parliamentary government is not something new. During the
third republic we were a parliamentary republic. At the culmination of
the war, during the crisis, Artsakh survived and achieved stability
thanks to the parliamentary model. A presidential government
is something new for Armenia which is not successful. However,
what is proposed today has nothing to do with a parliamentary or a
presidential government because all the proposals, conversations,
and changes take place in the same system, within the same circle,
and this circle is closed. The system must change, and a parliamentary,
authoritarian or theocratic model cannot change the situation. This is
a criminal oligarchic system. This system can prosper equally well in
a presidential and a parliamentary government. Look at the history of
Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome where the oligarchic scenario strived
for the parliamentary model, and strangely the monarchy was sometimes
more progressive. This is not a solution, the solution is somewhere
else, power must belong to people. A government must be elected by
people and be accountable to people. This is the resolution.
Transition to parliamentary government means blurring the
irresponsibility of the oligarchic system. Now everything in this
pyramid is based on the illegitimate rule of one person, anarchy
and illegality will be cloned to several oligarchs who will buy
parliamentary seats, as they have privatized parties. How can one speak
about the PAP seriously which is in the pocket of a single oligarch?
This is just a sham, another balloon that will burst. It has nothing
to do with real life, solution of real problems. The solution is
people's power restored by the civil society, currently the alternative
parliament is dealing with it which is already operating and will
present in a few days its first report during a press conference.
Will the nomination of someone representing the civil society create
a real alternative? Can the civil society act as an alternative to
the nominated criminal oligarchs?
The civil society is the only alternative to the criminal oligarchic
system, there is no other alternative. What is now proposed as a real
alternative is just a word play. How can Tsarukyan be an alternative
to Serzh Sargsyan? They are two branches growing from the same root.
They are not different in essence. And since the civil society is
the main rival of this government, the occupant regime, they will do
everything to mislead the civil society which is the last hope. So,
they are already doing something without the civil society, the most
vivid representatives of it, they go to Khosrov Forest without the
environmentalists, they hold discussions on justice without Vahe
Avetyan initiative, they will go on to set up sham NGOs. We all know
about these things. During Levon Ter-Petrosyan's rule alternative
political parties were established which spoilt the party system, and
now they will try to do the same with the civil society. However,
they will not succeed because people who work in this sphere -
environmentalists, human rights activists, mothers of non-combat
victims - are not venal, they are enthusiasts, their interests are in
line with the interests of the society - social justice and equity. In
other words, they will not succeed hard though they may try. There
will be no elections like before. The score has been pre-determined.
Personally, I am not interested.
Over this period we have been working towards the embryo of alternative
people's government. We have created a pre-parliament, it has already
adopted a declaration, and in the upcoming 20 weeks the establishment
of the founding parliament will be facilitated.
Siranuysh Papyan
http://www.lragir.am/index.php/eng/0/interview/view/28019
Interview - Monday, 12 November 2012, 15:16
Interview with Tigran Khzmalyan, filmmaker, member of Sardarapat
Movement Initiative Group
Mr. Khzmalyan, what is your opinion on the PAP's proposal on
parliamentary government and the decision of other parties to support
this proposal?
Generally, parliamentary government is not something new. During the
third republic we were a parliamentary republic. At the culmination of
the war, during the crisis, Artsakh survived and achieved stability
thanks to the parliamentary model. A presidential government
is something new for Armenia which is not successful. However,
what is proposed today has nothing to do with a parliamentary or a
presidential government because all the proposals, conversations,
and changes take place in the same system, within the same circle,
and this circle is closed. The system must change, and a parliamentary,
authoritarian or theocratic model cannot change the situation. This is
a criminal oligarchic system. This system can prosper equally well in
a presidential and a parliamentary government. Look at the history of
Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome where the oligarchic scenario strived
for the parliamentary model, and strangely the monarchy was sometimes
more progressive. This is not a solution, the solution is somewhere
else, power must belong to people. A government must be elected by
people and be accountable to people. This is the resolution.
Transition to parliamentary government means blurring the
irresponsibility of the oligarchic system. Now everything in this
pyramid is based on the illegitimate rule of one person, anarchy
and illegality will be cloned to several oligarchs who will buy
parliamentary seats, as they have privatized parties. How can one speak
about the PAP seriously which is in the pocket of a single oligarch?
This is just a sham, another balloon that will burst. It has nothing
to do with real life, solution of real problems. The solution is
people's power restored by the civil society, currently the alternative
parliament is dealing with it which is already operating and will
present in a few days its first report during a press conference.
Will the nomination of someone representing the civil society create
a real alternative? Can the civil society act as an alternative to
the nominated criminal oligarchs?
The civil society is the only alternative to the criminal oligarchic
system, there is no other alternative. What is now proposed as a real
alternative is just a word play. How can Tsarukyan be an alternative
to Serzh Sargsyan? They are two branches growing from the same root.
They are not different in essence. And since the civil society is
the main rival of this government, the occupant regime, they will do
everything to mislead the civil society which is the last hope. So,
they are already doing something without the civil society, the most
vivid representatives of it, they go to Khosrov Forest without the
environmentalists, they hold discussions on justice without Vahe
Avetyan initiative, they will go on to set up sham NGOs. We all know
about these things. During Levon Ter-Petrosyan's rule alternative
political parties were established which spoilt the party system, and
now they will try to do the same with the civil society. However,
they will not succeed because people who work in this sphere -
environmentalists, human rights activists, mothers of non-combat
victims - are not venal, they are enthusiasts, their interests are in
line with the interests of the society - social justice and equity. In
other words, they will not succeed hard though they may try. There
will be no elections like before. The score has been pre-determined.
Personally, I am not interested.
Over this period we have been working towards the embryo of alternative
people's government. We have created a pre-parliament, it has already
adopted a declaration, and in the upcoming 20 weeks the establishment
of the founding parliament will be facilitated.