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"CASINO ELECTORAL MECHANISM"
Siranuysh Papyan
http://www.lragir.am/index.php/eng/0/interview/view/28115
Interview - Tuesday, 20 November 2012, 17:05
Interview with Garegin Chugaszyan, member of Sardarapat Initiative
Group
Mr. Chugaszyan, you have recently announced the establishment of the
pre-parliament which intends to form a Founding Parliament through
alternative elections. Will it mark the beginning of a new political
process?
These institutions are purposeful. We are forced to set up such
institutions. It should be noted that currently people do not intend
to have a government which will be able to pursue national issues.
This situation will lead to crisis, most dangerous consequences.
This is difficult to imagine but this is a fact. 200,000 citizens of
the Republic of Armenia have chosen other governments and have left
their homeland. People make a choice that is horrible as it causes
decay of our nation and homeland.
We appeared in this vicious circle in the 1995-1996 in the result of
violent intervention in the political processes after which feedback
between the leadership and people weakened. After March 1 the so-called
elite was totally alienated from people and is confident that its
legitimacy depends on the foreign forces and has left only two ways
of contacting its people - vote buying and constant TV anesthesia
of consciousness.
The initiators of the new political process warn that we are
approaching the fatal point of decay, the point of being or not
being of the nation, at the same time they are sure that there is
always an alternative to the "casino electoral mechanism" with its
predetermined result.
The process begins with the stage of pre-parliament which has three
interrelated issues. The first is the renewed vision of state. The
second issue is the formation of the front of intellectual citizens.
Finally, the third issue is the organization of the mechanism of
election of the Founding Parliament.
The society has received a lot of proposals during these years and
does not believe in this one. How can the idea of the pre-parliament
brought closer to the society?
Two parallel processes are underway, one is decay, the other is
construction. The party-based system is collapsing. Paradoxically,
it is accompanied by victories in the civic field. However, during
the decay of the political field the civic mass, the group of people
formed in the recent years who are ready to stand up for their own
dignity, freedom and destiny, will be lost if no new parallel political
process occurs.
Our greatest enemy will be despair and depression of the activists
after every rigged election, while people are in a constant state
of despair. In this stage the purpose will be the involvement of the
active part of the society rather than the general public. We believe
that this is the alternative, the path which will attract people like
a magnet.
Even though the party system is decayed, it works during the electoral
processes and a large part of the society participates in the process.
Pathogen processes may be observed in any nation, including our
nation. A large part of the public is sick. The lack of belief is
a form of its expression. We think the problem is not the shortage
of resisting forces but the scattered forces of resistance, and the
solution is the new ways of bringing together those forces which are
ready to resist, indicate the path, mobilize, have others resist. In
other words, there is an issue of building up confidence. There is
no need to hope that everyone will stand up unanimously. Our recent
past shows that at the beginning of the Artsakh movement not everyone
stood up, and there was a small group while the others were skeptical
about the liberation of Artsakh, then the volunteers came, and it
overwhelmed everyone and became a universal struggle.
In this case it is a political self-governing process where it will
be possible to concentrate the energy of resistance and facilitate
fundamental political change without shocks.
This process must involve the civic movements, we can see the healthy
energy of Armenia there, and its unification will lead to a renewed
political field rather than transformation of the criminal oligarchic
presidential government into a criminal oligarchic parliamentary
government which will be wrapped in bourgeois democratic revolution
in which nobody will believe.
Is there clear timing?
We have foreseen that in the middle of the next year the pre-parliament
will be substituted by the Founding Parliament.
From: Baghdasarian
Siranuysh Papyan
http://www.lragir.am/index.php/eng/0/interview/view/28115
Interview - Tuesday, 20 November 2012, 17:05
Interview with Garegin Chugaszyan, member of Sardarapat Initiative
Group
Mr. Chugaszyan, you have recently announced the establishment of the
pre-parliament which intends to form a Founding Parliament through
alternative elections. Will it mark the beginning of a new political
process?
These institutions are purposeful. We are forced to set up such
institutions. It should be noted that currently people do not intend
to have a government which will be able to pursue national issues.
This situation will lead to crisis, most dangerous consequences.
This is difficult to imagine but this is a fact. 200,000 citizens of
the Republic of Armenia have chosen other governments and have left
their homeland. People make a choice that is horrible as it causes
decay of our nation and homeland.
We appeared in this vicious circle in the 1995-1996 in the result of
violent intervention in the political processes after which feedback
between the leadership and people weakened. After March 1 the so-called
elite was totally alienated from people and is confident that its
legitimacy depends on the foreign forces and has left only two ways
of contacting its people - vote buying and constant TV anesthesia
of consciousness.
The initiators of the new political process warn that we are
approaching the fatal point of decay, the point of being or not
being of the nation, at the same time they are sure that there is
always an alternative to the "casino electoral mechanism" with its
predetermined result.
The process begins with the stage of pre-parliament which has three
interrelated issues. The first is the renewed vision of state. The
second issue is the formation of the front of intellectual citizens.
Finally, the third issue is the organization of the mechanism of
election of the Founding Parliament.
The society has received a lot of proposals during these years and
does not believe in this one. How can the idea of the pre-parliament
brought closer to the society?
Two parallel processes are underway, one is decay, the other is
construction. The party-based system is collapsing. Paradoxically,
it is accompanied by victories in the civic field. However, during
the decay of the political field the civic mass, the group of people
formed in the recent years who are ready to stand up for their own
dignity, freedom and destiny, will be lost if no new parallel political
process occurs.
Our greatest enemy will be despair and depression of the activists
after every rigged election, while people are in a constant state
of despair. In this stage the purpose will be the involvement of the
active part of the society rather than the general public. We believe
that this is the alternative, the path which will attract people like
a magnet.
Even though the party system is decayed, it works during the electoral
processes and a large part of the society participates in the process.
Pathogen processes may be observed in any nation, including our
nation. A large part of the public is sick. The lack of belief is
a form of its expression. We think the problem is not the shortage
of resisting forces but the scattered forces of resistance, and the
solution is the new ways of bringing together those forces which are
ready to resist, indicate the path, mobilize, have others resist. In
other words, there is an issue of building up confidence. There is
no need to hope that everyone will stand up unanimously. Our recent
past shows that at the beginning of the Artsakh movement not everyone
stood up, and there was a small group while the others were skeptical
about the liberation of Artsakh, then the volunteers came, and it
overwhelmed everyone and became a universal struggle.
In this case it is a political self-governing process where it will
be possible to concentrate the energy of resistance and facilitate
fundamental political change without shocks.
This process must involve the civic movements, we can see the healthy
energy of Armenia there, and its unification will lead to a renewed
political field rather than transformation of the criminal oligarchic
presidential government into a criminal oligarchic parliamentary
government which will be wrapped in bourgeois democratic revolution
in which nobody will believe.
Is there clear timing?
We have foreseen that in the middle of the next year the pre-parliament
will be substituted by the Founding Parliament.
From: Baghdasarian