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OF THE DEAD, NOTHING UNLESS GOOD
Significant things are happening in the so-called political class
of Armenia. These involve the ruling party, and as its members say,
they have to be both government and opposition since they are the
only ones to discuss important issues.
These issues are generally related to the offshore scandals of the
prime minister and the revelations of the Control Chamber. However,
everyone is silent about foreign matters, in particular the European
Union - Eurasia choice and the Russian supply of offensive weapons
to Azerbaijan. In other words, relating to relations with Russia. I
mean nothing is known about the official position of Armenia.
All the other forces except Free Democrats and Heritage are silent.
The ARF, Prosperous Armenia and the Armenian National Congress
announced that they are going to carry out reforms, ensuring an
"alibi" for them.
But it is hard to believe them because any reform in any party of
Armenia would necessitate dissolution of the party. For example,
the ARF stated that press reports about internal issues of their
party are ordered by the prime minister. This trick is usually used
by the PAP and the Armenian National Congress as well. When parties
are sensitive about publications, it means they have no intention to
carry out reforms.
Parties are supposed to put forth public and state issues and solve
them. In other words, they assume responsibility in front of the
society. Non-governmental parties which are not carrying the weight
of the state are more flexible to discuss and propose solutions of
issues, which is the condition to maneuver and conduct effective
domestic and foreign policies.
Hence, parties are said to be as open and accountable as possible. In
this regard, there is nothing similar in the Armenian political field.
Instead, the "main" Armenian parties remain closed and authoritarian
structures with authoritarian methods of decision making. One of
the reasons is that authorities in Armenia are not formed by way of
elections. In other words, the vote of the society to which political
forces are responsible does not count. Under these conditions, one
either has to fight for voting mechanisms or to fine-tune oneself to
the system and receive one's economic and administrative quotas.
Armenian parties have chosen the second option, actually participating
in the elimination of voting mechanisms.
This behavior has deprived the Armenian political class of internal
and external adequacy. In order to fill in this gap, either the
political forces should change their essence and motivation, hence
undergo reforms, or they need to continue acting in the same way,
facing marginalization. The second option has been used so far.
Parties have become more inadequate, their propaganda machine is a
"blacker". All this leads to marginalization of the political field,
which we are witnessing now.
Times are changing. The Armenian society has undergone tangible
transformations in terms of awareness of their rights and conscience,
and it cannot be deceived by unreal "ideas" and demagogy. The tragedy
of parties is that they "missed" this circumstance which cannot be
filled in now.
The society has understood who has stolen their constitutional
rights, who is trying to eliminate public initiatives, who is trying
to resolve their personal issues. In this case, it is ridiculous to
dwell on orders of someone, and this means that the parties have no
real chance and wish to change.
Under these conditions their position is reduced to the saying "of
the dead, nothing unless good". In the case of Armenian parties,
there is no good, so there remains nothing.
Haik Aramyan 11:22 15/07/2013 Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/index/eng/0/comments/view/30459
Significant things are happening in the so-called political class
of Armenia. These involve the ruling party, and as its members say,
they have to be both government and opposition since they are the
only ones to discuss important issues.
These issues are generally related to the offshore scandals of the
prime minister and the revelations of the Control Chamber. However,
everyone is silent about foreign matters, in particular the European
Union - Eurasia choice and the Russian supply of offensive weapons
to Azerbaijan. In other words, relating to relations with Russia. I
mean nothing is known about the official position of Armenia.
All the other forces except Free Democrats and Heritage are silent.
The ARF, Prosperous Armenia and the Armenian National Congress
announced that they are going to carry out reforms, ensuring an
"alibi" for them.
But it is hard to believe them because any reform in any party of
Armenia would necessitate dissolution of the party. For example,
the ARF stated that press reports about internal issues of their
party are ordered by the prime minister. This trick is usually used
by the PAP and the Armenian National Congress as well. When parties
are sensitive about publications, it means they have no intention to
carry out reforms.
Parties are supposed to put forth public and state issues and solve
them. In other words, they assume responsibility in front of the
society. Non-governmental parties which are not carrying the weight
of the state are more flexible to discuss and propose solutions of
issues, which is the condition to maneuver and conduct effective
domestic and foreign policies.
Hence, parties are said to be as open and accountable as possible. In
this regard, there is nothing similar in the Armenian political field.
Instead, the "main" Armenian parties remain closed and authoritarian
structures with authoritarian methods of decision making. One of
the reasons is that authorities in Armenia are not formed by way of
elections. In other words, the vote of the society to which political
forces are responsible does not count. Under these conditions, one
either has to fight for voting mechanisms or to fine-tune oneself to
the system and receive one's economic and administrative quotas.
Armenian parties have chosen the second option, actually participating
in the elimination of voting mechanisms.
This behavior has deprived the Armenian political class of internal
and external adequacy. In order to fill in this gap, either the
political forces should change their essence and motivation, hence
undergo reforms, or they need to continue acting in the same way,
facing marginalization. The second option has been used so far.
Parties have become more inadequate, their propaganda machine is a
"blacker". All this leads to marginalization of the political field,
which we are witnessing now.
Times are changing. The Armenian society has undergone tangible
transformations in terms of awareness of their rights and conscience,
and it cannot be deceived by unreal "ideas" and demagogy. The tragedy
of parties is that they "missed" this circumstance which cannot be
filled in now.
The society has understood who has stolen their constitutional
rights, who is trying to eliminate public initiatives, who is trying
to resolve their personal issues. In this case, it is ridiculous to
dwell on orders of someone, and this means that the parties have no
real chance and wish to change.
Under these conditions their position is reduced to the saying "of
the dead, nothing unless good". In the case of Armenian parties,
there is no good, so there remains nothing.
Haik Aramyan 11:22 15/07/2013 Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/index/eng/0/comments/view/30459