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    RUTHLESS AND MINDLESS VOTING
    HAKOB BADALYAN

    Story from Lragir.am News:
    http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/comments25286.html
    Published: 11:03:42 - 29/02/2012

    On February 29, the consideration of the draft law on 100%
    proportional representation will be discussed in the parliament. The
    Republican Party is against it, which means the OYP is against too.

    Heritage and ARF Dashnaktsutyun support the bill, and a different
    position of theirs would be strange because they are the authors of
    the draft.

    Gagik Tsarukyan lets the party members free in their choice and each
    member should vote in accord with their conscience and mind, as member
    of the parliamentary group of the party Naira Zohrabyan stated.

    So, we find out there are also cases when the MPs don't vote in accord
    with their conscience and mind but under the pressure of someone else.

    In other words, the party leader instructs the party members to vote
    this or another way.

    This situation is present not only within the BHP but also in all
    other political forces of Armenia, especially those governmental. For
    example, the Republican Party does not differ at all in this sense and
    takes each step as Serzh Sargsyan says.

    But in these cases, we cannot be sure that the MPs vote against their
    conscience and mind. After all, MPs are also possible to have no
    conscience or mind.

    In general, the situation looks like a paradox when it is stated that
    the leader of a party lets free the MPs to vote in accord with their
    conscience and mind. Does it mean that if the party leaders want they
    can force MPs a ruthless and mindless voting?

    The issue on the lack of democracy within the parties is a priority in
    terms of the lack of development of the system in Armenia, one of the
    major vices of the political system when the parties fighting for the
    establishment of democracy in the country, have not created democratic
    mechanisms inside their own parties, and having a different opinion
    means betrayal.

    While, the party is a union of people with common values and ideas,
    and not a sample forcing the same opinion to everyone and once out,
    one will be punished.

    The mechanisms of internal party democracy are seen among the
    political unions in Armenia as attempts to intervene in the internal
    affairs of the party. In other words, if there is no strong fist and
    common behavior, the party can be destroyed from outside.

    The same approach is present also in relation to the democracy of the
    country when it is perceived as global treachery and a measure to
    intervene in internal affairs of the country. In this context too, the
    false idea on national unity is forced when any ideas on democracy and
    rights are immediately assessed as an encroachment on the national
    unity.

    This situation in the parties and in the country makes clear the
    prevalent thinking of the greater part of the Armenian parties
    rendered them attaches of the Armenian ruling criminal-oligarchic
    system even if these parties dwell on democracy, freedom of speech and
    civil freedoms.

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