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ZARUI POSTANJAN: RADICALISM AS GOAL IN ITSELF IN POLITICS - 2
Vestnik Kavkaza, Russia
Oct 21 2014
21 October 2014 - 11:41am
By Susanna Petrosyan, Yerevan. Exclusively for Vestnik Kavkaza
Zarui Postanjan, a member of the Armenian parliament, presented her
version of the opposition platform last week. The lawmaker proposed
that the opposition parties PAP, ANC and Heritage impeach President
Serzh Sargsyan, initiate the prosecution of Sargsyan and Robert
Kocharyan, return illegally privatized or acquired state property,
dismiss and punish judges involved in political persecutions, sentence
members of the police, National Security Service and the military
involved in political murders and persecutions, form a temporary
interim government and hold early parliamentary and presidential polls.
Experts consider the order of steps to be unrealistic. Impeaching the
president requires 2/3 of votes of the parliament with approval of the
Constitutional Court. According to the law, the Constitutional Court
needs to present the accusations of the opposition to the president,
then the parliament starts a vote of censure. The parliamentary
opposition needs 87 votes to declare impeachment. The parliamentary
majority has not been in control of 50 out of 131 votes for the first
time in many years. And even then, the opposition will have problems
with getting the required number of votes. The legal grounds for
impeachment of Sargsyan were prepared by the ANC in 2011. They have
been constantly expanded and adjusted according to the situation. In
other words, Postanjan's statement has no legal grounds.
Speaking of illegal actions of the government, the legislator ignored
presumption of innocence, only the court decides on guilt. But before
the court, there are many facts and events that need investigating,
first of all the events of March 1, 2008. The opposition has an
insurmountable obstacle here as well: most members of parliament belong
to the RPA, they control the prosecutor general. Obviously, prosecution
of the incumbent president and ex-President Kocharyan is unreal.
The opposition quartet has a much more real order of actions. It plans
to replace the government and start prosecution and investigations
only after that.
At the meeting on October 10, a road map for the opposition's actions
to oust the government was presented. According to the plan, the
regime needs to stop reproducing using constitutional amendments,
it needs to prepare the legal system for democratic elections and
form a legitimate government speedily. The opposition warned that a
pan-national wave of civil disobedience will be initiated unless the
government complies. The next meeting will be held on October 24,
a common action program will be passed then.
The question is, why did Postanjan need to voice a more radical
position than the opposition quartet? Maybe she is trying to draw
attention to herself and improve her personal rating to use it in
further political processes. Armenia will definitely go through
important internal political processes, but not all people involved
in them today have specified their positions.
Part 1: http://vestnikkavkaza.net/articles/politics/61133.html
http://vestnikkavkaza.net/articles/politics/61236.html
From: Baghdasarian
Vestnik Kavkaza, Russia
Oct 21 2014
21 October 2014 - 11:41am
By Susanna Petrosyan, Yerevan. Exclusively for Vestnik Kavkaza
Zarui Postanjan, a member of the Armenian parliament, presented her
version of the opposition platform last week. The lawmaker proposed
that the opposition parties PAP, ANC and Heritage impeach President
Serzh Sargsyan, initiate the prosecution of Sargsyan and Robert
Kocharyan, return illegally privatized or acquired state property,
dismiss and punish judges involved in political persecutions, sentence
members of the police, National Security Service and the military
involved in political murders and persecutions, form a temporary
interim government and hold early parliamentary and presidential polls.
Experts consider the order of steps to be unrealistic. Impeaching the
president requires 2/3 of votes of the parliament with approval of the
Constitutional Court. According to the law, the Constitutional Court
needs to present the accusations of the opposition to the president,
then the parliament starts a vote of censure. The parliamentary
opposition needs 87 votes to declare impeachment. The parliamentary
majority has not been in control of 50 out of 131 votes for the first
time in many years. And even then, the opposition will have problems
with getting the required number of votes. The legal grounds for
impeachment of Sargsyan were prepared by the ANC in 2011. They have
been constantly expanded and adjusted according to the situation. In
other words, Postanjan's statement has no legal grounds.
Speaking of illegal actions of the government, the legislator ignored
presumption of innocence, only the court decides on guilt. But before
the court, there are many facts and events that need investigating,
first of all the events of March 1, 2008. The opposition has an
insurmountable obstacle here as well: most members of parliament belong
to the RPA, they control the prosecutor general. Obviously, prosecution
of the incumbent president and ex-President Kocharyan is unreal.
The opposition quartet has a much more real order of actions. It plans
to replace the government and start prosecution and investigations
only after that.
At the meeting on October 10, a road map for the opposition's actions
to oust the government was presented. According to the plan, the
regime needs to stop reproducing using constitutional amendments,
it needs to prepare the legal system for democratic elections and
form a legitimate government speedily. The opposition warned that a
pan-national wave of civil disobedience will be initiated unless the
government complies. The next meeting will be held on October 24,
a common action program will be passed then.
The question is, why did Postanjan need to voice a more radical
position than the opposition quartet? Maybe she is trying to draw
attention to herself and improve her personal rating to use it in
further political processes. Armenia will definitely go through
important internal political processes, but not all people involved
in them today have specified their positions.
Part 1: http://vestnikkavkaza.net/articles/politics/61133.html
http://vestnikkavkaza.net/articles/politics/61236.html
From: Baghdasarian