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    Three In A Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog's Head)

    HAKOB BADALYAN

    Story from Lragir.am News:
    http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/comments25995.html

    Published: 14:05:11 - 30/04/2012


    As part of the campaign, one of the TV channels hosted Vartan Oskanian
    running second on the ticket of the Prosperous Armenia Party. He said
    that 4 years ago the situation in Armenia was much better and a two
    digit growth was reported several years running, even though it is
    thought to be exaggerated or speculative in structure.

    It goes without saying that the social and economic situation in
    Armenia was better four years ago, especially for ordinary citizens.
    Experts, economists, the government may argue and prove in
    professional terms that the reason for today's decline is the
    dangerous and wrong balloon of growth four years ago. However, the
    citizens know only one indicator of evaluation. When was easier to
    earn their living and support their children, now or four years ago?

    The rest is the same speculation, as the growth of four or five years
    ago is speculatively explained by the government. In this sense,
    Vartan Oskanian is right when he says it is necessary to bring up the
    issue of responsibility now because it will ensure the most optimal
    way to effectiveness in future.

    At the same time, there is another aspect, or perhaps even the main
    aspect of the issue. It is systemic issues in Armenia - constraints of
    political and economic freedoms, a closed economic and political
    system, criminal and unconstitutional cohesion of the government and
    business and maintenance of this system through unconstitutional
    methods.

    The other issues - economic, political, social, psychological,
    cultural, legal consciousness, human resource - are the consequences
    of these basic vices.

    During the election campaign the society often hears pronouncements
    that it was different before. Moreover, they often hear that formerly
    a lot of things were better, even model. These pronouncements, hints,
    contexts are made regularly, the citizens hear examples from the
    Armenian National Congress leaders who were in government till 1998,
    as well as from Vartan Oskanian.

    In other words, two pillars of the political system of Armenia, the
    first and the second presidents, are trying to hint to the public with
    the help of their supporters that everything was different during
    their time, and a lot of things were better.

    At least it is not honest to talk to the society this way. It is the
    same manipulation spirit of trust to change which the government is
    trying to play now.

    It is impossible to have a good government with good tendencies and
    correct content and logic from which a bad system is suddenly born.

    If Kocharyan's government was born from Ter-Petrosyan's government, it
    means the spirit of that government felt good and comfortable in
    Ter-Petrosyan's government, it means that Ter-Petrosyan's system had
    people with such mentality, this system of values was encouraged,
    reaching a level of ability for a coup.

    It is impossible to have positive tendencies of development, modern
    values and approaches in Robert Kocharyan's system, which are suddenly
    turned upside down as soon as Serzh Sargsyan becomes president, and
    Tigran Sargsyan becomes prime minister.

    After all, since 1995 the electoral systems and the judicial system
    have been mutated in Armenia, in 1995 the function of forming
    government was seized from the citizens of Armenia and handed to the
    military-feudal system which underwent some technological
    `modernization' resulting in change of correlation of the military and
    feudal elements in favor of the feudal system.

    In fact, the issue of effective governance persists in any system, and
    it cannot be argued. In the same totalitarian system one can govern
    effectively, while others may govern ineffectively.

    In Armenia, however, the problem is systemic, fundamental. In other
    words, the problem is not effective or ineffective governance but the
    starting points - Constitution, open political and economic systems,
    promotion of the right to vote, an independent judicial system.

    This is the main issue and not the working hours of the government or
    the multiplier effect of building in Yerevan during the term of each
    president.

    Hence, it is necessary to discuss these fundamental, original issues,
    the ways of their rapid solution. Discussions in this context must not
    play subtly on situational `advantages' of the former ones to justify
    themselves but apologize to the society honestly for systemic
    irregularities, legal shortcomings, mutation of values, thereby
    guaranteeing in the least extent that there is full acknowledgement of
    challenges facing the state and sincere intention and will. Afterwards
    the ability for their implementation will come.

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