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The Last Rally
Haik Aramyan
Comments - Saturday, 09 March 2013, 14:22
Raffi Hovannisian has stated for several times that March 10 rally
will be a U-turn. Similar timings and promises were heard in previous
rallies as well. On March 5 he waited for Serzh Sargsyan to go to
Freedom Square and announce about his resignation. Of course, Raffi
Hovannisian is not so ingenuous to think that Serzh Sargsyan will go
to Freedom Square and announce about his resignation. Or will resign
at all. At the same time, a resignation is not impossible under
certain circumstances. The secretary of Heritage Party Stepan Safaryan
has stated this clearly during the rally on March 5. `We must take
steps which will send the government into majority,' he said, adding
that as soon as the axis of resistance departs from people-government
line, they will lose. It is true that he did not specify the steps
that will corner the government. Neither do the other speakers of the
rallies, including Raffi Hovannisian. There may be such steps but they
are not made known. It is possible that Raffi will speak about these
steps tomorrow, on March 10. Moreover, Raffi must speak about it
because the rally of March 10 may be the last rally of the movement
which may transform to a `traditional opposition movement' which will
end up in defeat, Stepan Safaryan says. A movement and opposition
struggle are different things and have different logics. A movement
must be possibly transparent and open and no statements or promises
must be made from the rostrum that will not be carried out. It sends
people into doubts and despair. In fact, the greatest disadvantage of
the Armenian political class is the value of speech, or more exactly,
the lack of awareness of the value of speech. One of the stereotypes
of the political class is that politics is the art of deception. This
is the reason of defeat of the Armenian political class due to which
power was taken by the criminals and oligarchs. People must not be
deceived and abandoned by reserving the right to lead and direct them.
Meanwhile, this has been the main occupation of the Armenian
oppositions. They made false promises and offered unreal mechanisms.
There is no need to forget that in the beginning was the word. It
depends on its nature whether people will believe or not. The prospect
of `traditionalism' of the new movement seems quite real considering
Raffi's negotiations with the political parties which are not made
known to the public. In this case, only the group will be left on the
square which has nothing to do with the movement and is overwhelmed by
hatred which will not lead anywhere. Meanwhile, the movement will
continue in the same logic, and it will be difficult to stop the
political class.
http://www.lragir.am/index.php/eng/0/comments/view/29225
From: A. Papazian
Haik Aramyan
Comments - Saturday, 09 March 2013, 14:22
Raffi Hovannisian has stated for several times that March 10 rally
will be a U-turn. Similar timings and promises were heard in previous
rallies as well. On March 5 he waited for Serzh Sargsyan to go to
Freedom Square and announce about his resignation. Of course, Raffi
Hovannisian is not so ingenuous to think that Serzh Sargsyan will go
to Freedom Square and announce about his resignation. Or will resign
at all. At the same time, a resignation is not impossible under
certain circumstances. The secretary of Heritage Party Stepan Safaryan
has stated this clearly during the rally on March 5. `We must take
steps which will send the government into majority,' he said, adding
that as soon as the axis of resistance departs from people-government
line, they will lose. It is true that he did not specify the steps
that will corner the government. Neither do the other speakers of the
rallies, including Raffi Hovannisian. There may be such steps but they
are not made known. It is possible that Raffi will speak about these
steps tomorrow, on March 10. Moreover, Raffi must speak about it
because the rally of March 10 may be the last rally of the movement
which may transform to a `traditional opposition movement' which will
end up in defeat, Stepan Safaryan says. A movement and opposition
struggle are different things and have different logics. A movement
must be possibly transparent and open and no statements or promises
must be made from the rostrum that will not be carried out. It sends
people into doubts and despair. In fact, the greatest disadvantage of
the Armenian political class is the value of speech, or more exactly,
the lack of awareness of the value of speech. One of the stereotypes
of the political class is that politics is the art of deception. This
is the reason of defeat of the Armenian political class due to which
power was taken by the criminals and oligarchs. People must not be
deceived and abandoned by reserving the right to lead and direct them.
Meanwhile, this has been the main occupation of the Armenian
oppositions. They made false promises and offered unreal mechanisms.
There is no need to forget that in the beginning was the word. It
depends on its nature whether people will believe or not. The prospect
of `traditionalism' of the new movement seems quite real considering
Raffi's negotiations with the political parties which are not made
known to the public. In this case, only the group will be left on the
square which has nothing to do with the movement and is overwhelmed by
hatred which will not lead anywhere. Meanwhile, the movement will
continue in the same logic, and it will be difficult to stop the
political class.
http://www.lragir.am/index.php/eng/0/comments/view/29225
From: A. Papazian