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SINGLE-HANDED REFORMS SIGNAL BOLSHEVIK POLICIES - MP
18:53 * 22.12.14
In an interview with Tert.am, an opposition lawmaker from the Armenian
Revolutionary Federation-Dashnaksutyun (ARF-D) said their party's
decision not to join the coalition government does not imply that
a political minority should be an outsider from decision making
processes.
Artsvik Minasyan said he finds that such an approach is specific
only to politicians and political circles backing the pro-Bolshevik
ideology.
He warned against pinning all hopes on one person in the efforrts to
achieve a government change.
"That's the classical Bolshevik approach," he said.
Meantime Minasyan noted that the ARF-D will be an opposition political
force as long as its earlier reform platform remains unfulfilled.
"I just want to ask a question: does opposition mean not to work in
the government sector? If that's the understanding, then we are not an
opposition. If by saying 'opposition', they understand opposition to
the statehood, we are not that kind of opposition. And hence all the
co-thinkers and members of the political forces considered opposition,
who are public servants, have to quit," he noted.
Asked whether he expects any of the leaders of the opposition trio
(Heritage party, Prosperous Armenia and Armenian National Congress)
to justify the expectations for a government change, Minasyan said
he finds that all depends on their ability to attract big investments.
"If one person is able to implement such reforms, changing the
investment environment in the country, too bad for us and for our
country, because if that same person feels unwell tomorrow, it will be
just the other way about. That's why I say that it's no longer time
for individual-oriented policies. It's not longer time for expecting
changes depending on one person in the country.
"As for the trio leaders [Raffi Hovhannisyan, Gagik Tsarukyan and
Levon Ter-Petrosyan], all the three are experienced people, but they
have to first of all understand what they really wish. If maintaining
the presidential post is what they want, then they have to state from
now on who the would-be leader is. Further, they have to consider the
public opinion, realize or at least make it debatable. And last but
not the least, should our people be in trouble because of someone's
childhood desire? That [this particular person] is to become the
country's president? There is, after all, one seat for the president,
whereas very many wish it. One can't diminish the statehood to such
an extent. That's a road leading to nowhere," he added.
http://www.tert.am/en/news/2014/12/22/minasyan/1543279
18:53 * 22.12.14
In an interview with Tert.am, an opposition lawmaker from the Armenian
Revolutionary Federation-Dashnaksutyun (ARF-D) said their party's
decision not to join the coalition government does not imply that
a political minority should be an outsider from decision making
processes.
Artsvik Minasyan said he finds that such an approach is specific
only to politicians and political circles backing the pro-Bolshevik
ideology.
He warned against pinning all hopes on one person in the efforrts to
achieve a government change.
"That's the classical Bolshevik approach," he said.
Meantime Minasyan noted that the ARF-D will be an opposition political
force as long as its earlier reform platform remains unfulfilled.
"I just want to ask a question: does opposition mean not to work in
the government sector? If that's the understanding, then we are not an
opposition. If by saying 'opposition', they understand opposition to
the statehood, we are not that kind of opposition. And hence all the
co-thinkers and members of the political forces considered opposition,
who are public servants, have to quit," he noted.
Asked whether he expects any of the leaders of the opposition trio
(Heritage party, Prosperous Armenia and Armenian National Congress)
to justify the expectations for a government change, Minasyan said
he finds that all depends on their ability to attract big investments.
"If one person is able to implement such reforms, changing the
investment environment in the country, too bad for us and for our
country, because if that same person feels unwell tomorrow, it will be
just the other way about. That's why I say that it's no longer time
for individual-oriented policies. It's not longer time for expecting
changes depending on one person in the country.
"As for the trio leaders [Raffi Hovhannisyan, Gagik Tsarukyan and
Levon Ter-Petrosyan], all the three are experienced people, but they
have to first of all understand what they really wish. If maintaining
the presidential post is what they want, then they have to state from
now on who the would-be leader is. Further, they have to consider the
public opinion, realize or at least make it debatable. And last but
not the least, should our people be in trouble because of someone's
childhood desire? That [this particular person] is to become the
country's president? There is, after all, one seat for the president,
whereas very many wish it. One can't diminish the statehood to such
an extent. That's a road leading to nowhere," he added.
http://www.tert.am/en/news/2014/12/22/minasyan/1543279