THE “MODEL” OF THE STATE
Aram Abrahamian
Aravot (Morning), Armenia
Sept 27 2005
Nobody will be beaten in the coming parliamentary and presidential
elections, the activists of the opposition won’t be taken to
Police, ballot boxes will be filled a little and numbers won’t be
drawn. At the same time those elections will be too far from European
standards. Violence against the voters is in the second plan in modern
Armenian “technologies”. Power and administrative levers came to the
first plan and certainly money.
In that case elections held in the Kentron aren’t specific. Here
the DPA chose a wrong strategy from the beginning not nominating a
person who has experience of economic and administrative activities but
chose our colleague Rusan Khachaturian who yields the current district
ruler by objective showings. Beglarian’s victory was natural that is
he would win without using the above-mentioned levers and without
bribing the voters. And it doesn’t have reasonable explanation why
it did in the Kentron somewhere.
The “model” of our state was seen more clearly in the elections of
Arabkir. Both candidates Hovhannes Shahinian and David Gyulumian could
work theoretically as a district ruler. But ULP party which was for
D. Gyulumian refused of the fight before the elections. It happened
so as Serge Sargsian and Alraghaci Lyov assisted H.
Shahinian and on the other hand the criminals of the community,
“district authorities”. The ULP leader Gurgen Arsenian is a big
businessman consequently he has something to loose from both sides.
On the one hand the authority can examine his business in the way that
if it isn’t closed it will loose. On the other hand the hooligan of
the district may explode his cars, for example.
And what about the people? A white microbus 67ss653 by numbers stopped
in front of my building. Young people “with convincing appearance”
came out from the car with the lists in their cars. My neighbors sat
into that microbus, in particularly old people. They went for voting
after which the same bus gave them back.
Here in this way, without any violence, with flower branches in
their hands our voters would go and say, “yes” to the constitutional
amendments and then they will give their votes to the candidates of
the authority in the parliamentary and presidential elections.