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TROIKA OF OLIGARCHS VS. ALTERNATIVE OLIGARCH
JAMES HAKOBYAN
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/index.php/eng/0/comments/view/28340
15:40 07/12/2012
According to the PAP report, Gagik Tsarukyan said during his meetings
in Brussels that it is impossible to fight against corruption when
the fighters are the most corrupt people in Armenia.
This is a true observation but it is incomplete. The leader of
the force declaring 500,000 votes should put forth a more complete
strategic vision of fight against the systemic syndrome.
Gagik Tsarukyan should also name those corrupt officials. For instance,
is Serzh Sargsyan among them? How about the president of the National
Assembly Hovik Abrahamyan who is his in-law? Is the prime minister
corrupt? Which members of government are corrupt? Which members of
the president's staff or the administration of the National Assembly
are corrupt?
Otherwise, even the RPA makes general statements on corruption.
Meanwhile, the society needs a clear position, namely which official
is corrupt and who must be fired and held responsible.
The spokesman for the RPA Eduard Sharmazanov has described this
statement as a shame. He said they also can say a lot but they
don't do.
What does RPA silence? Sharmazanov lists what they can say but they do
not. They are not important because Tsarukyan's allegation is legal -
those most corrupt - while Sharmazanov's listing is not legal.
What of legal nature can the RPA tell the PAP? Can it say it is not
corrupt, the PAP is corrupt? Or can it sue the PAP leader who accuses
the government of Armenia of corruption for slander? After all,
the government led by Serzh Sargsyan fights against corruption. Or
does Serzh Sargsyan not fight against corruption? He has stated that
he does.
Hence, Gagik Tsarukyan slanders Serzh Sargsyan, listing him among
those corrupt. In this case nothing else is left to the RPA but
to go to court, as the Republican oligarchs do whenever a newspaper
publishes "libel". By the way, the party can assign Ruben Hairapetyan,
Samvel Alexanyan and Levon Sargsyan (Alraghac Lyov) to sue Gagik
Tsarukyan. This troika had sued the Armenian Time and demanded several
million drams for slandering them.
The troika of Republican oligarchs may win the case and boost the RPA
budget which can be spent on buying pre-election counter-tractors to
lease to voters, while the PAP returns the tractors it had distributed
to farmers ahead of the parliamentary election. Or the Republican
troika will use the legal remedy to make Gagik Tsarukyan clarify what
he meant when he said those corrupt fight against corruption.
JAMES HAKOBYAN
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/index.php/eng/0/comments/view/28340
15:40 07/12/2012
According to the PAP report, Gagik Tsarukyan said during his meetings
in Brussels that it is impossible to fight against corruption when
the fighters are the most corrupt people in Armenia.
This is a true observation but it is incomplete. The leader of
the force declaring 500,000 votes should put forth a more complete
strategic vision of fight against the systemic syndrome.
Gagik Tsarukyan should also name those corrupt officials. For instance,
is Serzh Sargsyan among them? How about the president of the National
Assembly Hovik Abrahamyan who is his in-law? Is the prime minister
corrupt? Which members of government are corrupt? Which members of
the president's staff or the administration of the National Assembly
are corrupt?
Otherwise, even the RPA makes general statements on corruption.
Meanwhile, the society needs a clear position, namely which official
is corrupt and who must be fired and held responsible.
The spokesman for the RPA Eduard Sharmazanov has described this
statement as a shame. He said they also can say a lot but they
don't do.
What does RPA silence? Sharmazanov lists what they can say but they do
not. They are not important because Tsarukyan's allegation is legal -
those most corrupt - while Sharmazanov's listing is not legal.
What of legal nature can the RPA tell the PAP? Can it say it is not
corrupt, the PAP is corrupt? Or can it sue the PAP leader who accuses
the government of Armenia of corruption for slander? After all,
the government led by Serzh Sargsyan fights against corruption. Or
does Serzh Sargsyan not fight against corruption? He has stated that
he does.
Hence, Gagik Tsarukyan slanders Serzh Sargsyan, listing him among
those corrupt. In this case nothing else is left to the RPA but
to go to court, as the Republican oligarchs do whenever a newspaper
publishes "libel". By the way, the party can assign Ruben Hairapetyan,
Samvel Alexanyan and Levon Sargsyan (Alraghac Lyov) to sue Gagik
Tsarukyan. This troika had sued the Armenian Time and demanded several
million drams for slandering them.
The troika of Republican oligarchs may win the case and boost the RPA
budget which can be spent on buying pre-election counter-tractors to
lease to voters, while the PAP returns the tractors it had distributed
to farmers ahead of the parliamentary election. Or the Republican
troika will use the legal remedy to make Gagik Tsarukyan clarify what
he meant when he said those corrupt fight against corruption.