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ONLY KOCHARYAN HAS FOUND THE FORMULA
HAKOB BADALYAN
13:43 13/02/2013
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/index.php/eng/0/comments/view/28913
Coordinator of the Armenian National Congress Levon Zurabyan told
RFE/RL Armenian service that compared to Serzh Sargsyan, Robert
Kocharyan is a more successful president. Zurabyan's statement caused
different reactions but the ANC coordinator told the truth, perhaps,
unwillingly.
Unwillingly because if someone said that Robert Kocharyan was a more
successful president than Levon Ter-Petrosyan, Zurabyan wouldn't
agree. But there is no doubt this is true.
The criterion is not the social-economic situation. The years of
Ter-Petrosyan's tenure were the hardest ones: war, blockade, collapse
of infrastructures and necessity to create new ones.
In this sense, it is wrong to compare the years of Ter-Petrosyan and
Robert Kocharyan. Their starting conditions were not equal.
A more optimal criterion to measure the success of presidents in
Armenia is the values they laid under governance, organization of
public coexistence and government policies. The next criterion could
be their ability to keep the situation in the country under control
and assume responsibility for it.
In terms of values, the tenures of Ter-Petrosyan and Serzh Sargsyan
have no deep differences compared to Kocharyan's tenure. As
individuals, all of the three presidents are different in terms of
their values, world vision and intellectual potential. But in terms of
effectiveness of governance these differences fade away. By and large,
the kind which took power in Armenia over years and was defined as
cleptocracy by Ter-Petrosyan was formed during the latter's tenure.
In terms of power, Robert Kocharyan managed to do what Ter-Petrosyan
had failed and Serzh Sargsyan has failed so far too. The point is
about the creation of the pyramid of interests and deals. Of course,
it was an anti-constitutional structure, and the mechanisms of its
formation and preservation had nothing in common with laws and their
enforcement. But Ter-Petrosyan was unable to form it. He formed an
authoritarian government contradicting to the Constitution which lost
its vitality very soon along with the appearance of the so-called
class of proprietors.
Serzh Sargsyan's administration is unable to produce a constitutional
system or anti-constitutional certainty which needs to be reformed
and formulated.
The issue is not that the head of the system has changed. The world
is changing, competition methods and models are changing. Armenia
has such a geographical position that even with the biggest wish it
cannot stay away from the process of change.
This system either needs to enter the constitutional field or to be
reinterpreted becoming adequate to world processes. This causes the
almost inevitable need for redistribution or formation of capital. In
other words, reform of the field of major proprietors is necessary
because the present one seems unable to perceive these issues and
challenges, at least in terms of personal interests.
Without this Serzh Sargsyan will be unable to resolve the issue of
power. Sargsyan does not have the necessary formula, he seems to
be maneuvering against the background of disaccords and subjects to
have a bigger possibility after the presidential elections. Although,
if possibilities increase, time decreases.
So far only Robert Kocharyan has been able to find the up-to-date
formula of formation of government so he is the most successful
president, in this regard, of course. All this is about personal or
group interest, because for Armenian presidents their interests very
rarely match the state and public ones.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
HAKOB BADALYAN
13:43 13/02/2013
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/index.php/eng/0/comments/view/28913
Coordinator of the Armenian National Congress Levon Zurabyan told
RFE/RL Armenian service that compared to Serzh Sargsyan, Robert
Kocharyan is a more successful president. Zurabyan's statement caused
different reactions but the ANC coordinator told the truth, perhaps,
unwillingly.
Unwillingly because if someone said that Robert Kocharyan was a more
successful president than Levon Ter-Petrosyan, Zurabyan wouldn't
agree. But there is no doubt this is true.
The criterion is not the social-economic situation. The years of
Ter-Petrosyan's tenure were the hardest ones: war, blockade, collapse
of infrastructures and necessity to create new ones.
In this sense, it is wrong to compare the years of Ter-Petrosyan and
Robert Kocharyan. Their starting conditions were not equal.
A more optimal criterion to measure the success of presidents in
Armenia is the values they laid under governance, organization of
public coexistence and government policies. The next criterion could
be their ability to keep the situation in the country under control
and assume responsibility for it.
In terms of values, the tenures of Ter-Petrosyan and Serzh Sargsyan
have no deep differences compared to Kocharyan's tenure. As
individuals, all of the three presidents are different in terms of
their values, world vision and intellectual potential. But in terms of
effectiveness of governance these differences fade away. By and large,
the kind which took power in Armenia over years and was defined as
cleptocracy by Ter-Petrosyan was formed during the latter's tenure.
In terms of power, Robert Kocharyan managed to do what Ter-Petrosyan
had failed and Serzh Sargsyan has failed so far too. The point is
about the creation of the pyramid of interests and deals. Of course,
it was an anti-constitutional structure, and the mechanisms of its
formation and preservation had nothing in common with laws and their
enforcement. But Ter-Petrosyan was unable to form it. He formed an
authoritarian government contradicting to the Constitution which lost
its vitality very soon along with the appearance of the so-called
class of proprietors.
Serzh Sargsyan's administration is unable to produce a constitutional
system or anti-constitutional certainty which needs to be reformed
and formulated.
The issue is not that the head of the system has changed. The world
is changing, competition methods and models are changing. Armenia
has such a geographical position that even with the biggest wish it
cannot stay away from the process of change.
This system either needs to enter the constitutional field or to be
reinterpreted becoming adequate to world processes. This causes the
almost inevitable need for redistribution or formation of capital. In
other words, reform of the field of major proprietors is necessary
because the present one seems unable to perceive these issues and
challenges, at least in terms of personal interests.
Without this Serzh Sargsyan will be unable to resolve the issue of
power. Sargsyan does not have the necessary formula, he seems to
be maneuvering against the background of disaccords and subjects to
have a bigger possibility after the presidential elections. Although,
if possibilities increase, time decreases.
So far only Robert Kocharyan has been able to find the up-to-date
formula of formation of government so he is the most successful
president, in this regard, of course. All this is about personal or
group interest, because for Armenian presidents their interests very
rarely match the state and public ones.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress