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    ARMENIAN DAILY SAYS PRESIDENT SHOULD NOT BE INVOLVED IN ELECTIONEERING
    by Aram Abrahamyan

    Aravot
    Jan 29 2008
    Armenia

    "There are no betrayers"

    To tell the truth, I try not to listen to the election speeches of
    [Armenian presidential] candidates in a selfish attempt to save my
    nerves. My only consolation is that 20 days are left [till the end
    of the presidential campaign] - politicians will say all bad things
    about each other, and they will gradually calm down after this.

    I don't like what is usually being said. For instance, I do not favour
    threats of transforming oligarchs supporting an opponent into homeless
    persons or throwing officials to jails. This smells of Bolshevism
    - the humankind has passed through this numerous times and knows
    that giving the "punishing sword" to any "winning force" does not
    establish justice.

    But the speeches of presidential candidates in this period can be
    unbalanced and of extreme nature (although, this is of course not
    desirable). The incumbent president should have completely different
    image - he, regardless of anything, symbolizes the state and should
    be above all of this. One cannot say this about [Armenian President]
    Robert Kocharyan, unfortunately.

    Last Saturday [26 January] in Tsaghkadzor [winter resort in Kotayk
    Region] he spoke as an ordinary young man (if not to put it in a more
    rude manner) who wants to directly insult his political opponents
    using threats. What he says, in essence, is that the first Armenian
    president [Levon Ter-Petrosyan] was always guided by interests of
    another (consequently, a hostile) state [presumably Turkey]. This
    is not only a nonsense characteristics of "boyish clarification of
    relations", but also an insult - not for a given person but for the
    state - including in Robert Kocharyan's address. It turns out that the
    current president is the ally of such a person. So he is a betrayer
    as well?

    In reality, there are betrayers neither among the past nor among
    the present leaders or the nine [presidential] candidates, or in
    general in the political elite. There were and there will be people
    who make mistakes, including those who say words without thinking of
    consequences during the election turmoil.
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