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Serzh Sargsyan's Last Weapon
Haikazn Ghahriyan, Editor-in-Chief
Comments - Saturday, 05 July 2014, 16:30
On the Constitution Day Serzh Sargsyan released a message and wished
to follow the Constitution of the Republic of Armenia piously.
Besides, he mentioned systemic changes in our country which can't be
complete and comprehensive without new constitutional amendments.
The Constitution was adopted in 1995 and has not been enforced for a
single day. In that year, on July 5, the parliamentary election and
the constitutional referendum were held. At that time the electoral
fraud machine was launched. Both the referendum and election were
falsified.
In other words, the destruction of constitutional mechanisms and
fundamental rights began on the day of adoption of the constitution.
Later the process was refined and improved, and the continuity and
efficiency of the machine of electoral fraud was ensured.
When Levon Ter-Petrosyan was in government, the personal perceptions
and moral standards of some government groups and clans were binding.
The Constitution was forgotten, it was just a showcase for
legitimization of the government. The country was ruled in accordance
with the perceptions of separate people.
Now that Ter-Petrosyan's team is speaking about restoring
constitutional rule, it arouses a grin. In fact, he failed to
establish the constitutional state and make the process irreversible.
Next, Robert Kocharyan established the system which is called the
criminal oligarchic rule. It was a solid system based on the
principles of prison, quotas, shadow budget and racketeering. The
Constitution and legislation were replaced by agreements on these
principles.
Unlike the civil society and the political parties, Kocharyan
immediately understood the value of the Constitution. The system had
its internal constitution which was based on another "law",
agreements, not perceptions of specific people. In other words, the
logic of the state law and system law was actually the same. And
Kocharyan redesigned the Constitution to legitimize the system on the
one hand, and use the Constitution as a weapon against the claims of
the society, on the other hand.
Under Serzh Sargsyan this process could have been completed by
adapting shadow law and criminal agreements to the constitution, like
in some other countries. Now, however, Armenia has a mutant of
criminal rule and clans with blurred internal relations in all
spheres.
Serzh Sargsyan is also well-aware of the value of the Constitution and
is currently preparing a constitutional reform.
Building a constitutional state is hard work, and not every nation
succeeds. Success takes awareness of the meaning and value of the
Constitution and the necessity to enforce it every day.
The Armenian public, its intelligentsia, public and political
institutions lack this awareness.
Instead, the circles which have usurped power have realized the value
of the Constitution and continue to use the Constitution successfully
as a weapon for crushing the lawful claims and rights of the public.
- See more at: http://www.lragir.am/index/eng/0/comments/view/32694#sthash.l1JqnF2P.dpuf
Haikazn Ghahriyan, Editor-in-Chief
Comments - Saturday, 05 July 2014, 16:30
On the Constitution Day Serzh Sargsyan released a message and wished
to follow the Constitution of the Republic of Armenia piously.
Besides, he mentioned systemic changes in our country which can't be
complete and comprehensive without new constitutional amendments.
The Constitution was adopted in 1995 and has not been enforced for a
single day. In that year, on July 5, the parliamentary election and
the constitutional referendum were held. At that time the electoral
fraud machine was launched. Both the referendum and election were
falsified.
In other words, the destruction of constitutional mechanisms and
fundamental rights began on the day of adoption of the constitution.
Later the process was refined and improved, and the continuity and
efficiency of the machine of electoral fraud was ensured.
When Levon Ter-Petrosyan was in government, the personal perceptions
and moral standards of some government groups and clans were binding.
The Constitution was forgotten, it was just a showcase for
legitimization of the government. The country was ruled in accordance
with the perceptions of separate people.
Now that Ter-Petrosyan's team is speaking about restoring
constitutional rule, it arouses a grin. In fact, he failed to
establish the constitutional state and make the process irreversible.
Next, Robert Kocharyan established the system which is called the
criminal oligarchic rule. It was a solid system based on the
principles of prison, quotas, shadow budget and racketeering. The
Constitution and legislation were replaced by agreements on these
principles.
Unlike the civil society and the political parties, Kocharyan
immediately understood the value of the Constitution. The system had
its internal constitution which was based on another "law",
agreements, not perceptions of specific people. In other words, the
logic of the state law and system law was actually the same. And
Kocharyan redesigned the Constitution to legitimize the system on the
one hand, and use the Constitution as a weapon against the claims of
the society, on the other hand.
Under Serzh Sargsyan this process could have been completed by
adapting shadow law and criminal agreements to the constitution, like
in some other countries. Now, however, Armenia has a mutant of
criminal rule and clans with blurred internal relations in all
spheres.
Serzh Sargsyan is also well-aware of the value of the Constitution and
is currently preparing a constitutional reform.
Building a constitutional state is hard work, and not every nation
succeeds. Success takes awareness of the meaning and value of the
Constitution and the necessity to enforce it every day.
The Armenian public, its intelligentsia, public and political
institutions lack this awareness.
Instead, the circles which have usurped power have realized the value
of the Constitution and continue to use the Constitution successfully
as a weapon for crushing the lawful claims and rights of the public.
- See more at: http://www.lragir.am/index/eng/0/comments/view/32694#sthash.l1JqnF2P.dpuf