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WHEN POWER'S CYNICISM REACHES THE LIMIT
The story on prime minister's offshore assets is the indicator of
the Armenian political life where rational views lack.
There are data on the existence of an offshore company registered to
Tigran Sargsyan's name. It is a matter of political or geopolitical
competition who found the data and leaked them. Tigran Sargsyan says
that someone wants to discredit him though he is not saying who would
benefit from it.
The question is different. Actually Tigran Sargsyan didn't reject
the existence of such a company announcing that it could have been
registered without his knowledge. On the other hand, those, who accuse
the premier, put forward a moral rather than a legal question. They
say that Tigran Sargsyan registered a company, but no one says that
the law does not forbid Tigran Sargsyan having offshore assets.
Prime minister's answer, who actually, didn't refuse the existence of
such a company, sounded as cynical as the answer of the minister of
energy, who said that he does not remember the month of stipulation
of the Armenian-Russian agreement on gas price increase.
At the same time, public discussion of these issues and even some
requests by deputies often resemble ordinary hysteria, drowning
the rational link in the endless production of bile. In this sense,
ARF Dashnaktsutyun's position is certainly different, which makes
sober assessments.
As a result, two negative emotions clash in the political field -
cynical cold-blood and bilious hysteria. In this fight, surely,
cynicism wins because it chooses mathematically correct decisions. The
society loses because it is again left out of the decision-making
and even assessment process.
Hysteria, of course, also has its explanation: when there are no
legal mechanisms to influence on the decision-making, emotions and
the desire to outdo each other in the representation of reality
in darker colors are going forward. However, in this environment,
there are quite rational movements too. One of them saved Mashtots
Park. Others offer boycotting paying for gas, until the society is
provided evidence that it is not robbed.
Though it is evident that the period of local fight is coming to an end
and the time of conceptual decisions is approaching. Such decisions,
thanks God, are also proposed. Say, nationalization of energy power
and strategic objects hence reducing the dependence on foreign forces
and the possibilities of local officials to blame external forces.
Time will come when cynicism of the power will reach the limit. It
is already close.
Naira Hayrumyan 12:32 13/06/2013 Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/index/eng/0/country/view/30147
From: A. Papazian
The story on prime minister's offshore assets is the indicator of
the Armenian political life where rational views lack.
There are data on the existence of an offshore company registered to
Tigran Sargsyan's name. It is a matter of political or geopolitical
competition who found the data and leaked them. Tigran Sargsyan says
that someone wants to discredit him though he is not saying who would
benefit from it.
The question is different. Actually Tigran Sargsyan didn't reject
the existence of such a company announcing that it could have been
registered without his knowledge. On the other hand, those, who accuse
the premier, put forward a moral rather than a legal question. They
say that Tigran Sargsyan registered a company, but no one says that
the law does not forbid Tigran Sargsyan having offshore assets.
Prime minister's answer, who actually, didn't refuse the existence of
such a company, sounded as cynical as the answer of the minister of
energy, who said that he does not remember the month of stipulation
of the Armenian-Russian agreement on gas price increase.
At the same time, public discussion of these issues and even some
requests by deputies often resemble ordinary hysteria, drowning
the rational link in the endless production of bile. In this sense,
ARF Dashnaktsutyun's position is certainly different, which makes
sober assessments.
As a result, two negative emotions clash in the political field -
cynical cold-blood and bilious hysteria. In this fight, surely,
cynicism wins because it chooses mathematically correct decisions. The
society loses because it is again left out of the decision-making
and even assessment process.
Hysteria, of course, also has its explanation: when there are no
legal mechanisms to influence on the decision-making, emotions and
the desire to outdo each other in the representation of reality
in darker colors are going forward. However, in this environment,
there are quite rational movements too. One of them saved Mashtots
Park. Others offer boycotting paying for gas, until the society is
provided evidence that it is not robbed.
Though it is evident that the period of local fight is coming to an end
and the time of conceptual decisions is approaching. Such decisions,
thanks God, are also proposed. Say, nationalization of energy power
and strategic objects hence reducing the dependence on foreign forces
and the possibilities of local officials to blame external forces.
Time will come when cynicism of the power will reach the limit. It
is already close.
Naira Hayrumyan 12:32 13/06/2013 Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/index/eng/0/country/view/30147
From: A. Papazian