PRE-ELECTION PROJECT ENTITLED LABOR PARTY
Lragir.am
09 June 06
The United Labor Party is becoming engaged in power at such an
incredible speed that it is sure to hit and damage the other forces in
power. Except for Robert Kocharyan, of course. Gurgen Arsenyan, the
founder and leader of the United Labor Party, who calculates
everything, has surely calculated this too.
And simple logic suggests that the United Labor Party is part of the
government by a simple calculation too. The ULP is becoming part of
the executive just like it became a parliamentary force.
The leader of the ULP Gurgen Arsenyan first became an oligarch, then a
statesman, a member of parliament. In Armenia there are a number of
peoplewho set out from the other end, first a post, then oligarch
through the post. Gurgen Arsenyan’s way defines his type of
calculating everything. Calculation is good. But it is bad when the
calculations of a statesman are aimed to fillhis pocket as much as
possible.
A recent projection of ULP calculations was the reduction of the
lump-sum tax on the imports of cigars by the National Assembly. And
the main importer of cigars in Armenia is Gurgen Arsenyan. And since
over the upcoming 1-1.5 year the members of parliament will be busy
attending to pre-election, election and post-election problems, it is
certain that Gurgen Arsenyan will be enjoying privileges for at least
another 1-1.5 year.
Now about the executive. The National Assembly will be working for
another year. If we extract the pre-election period that the law
provides for and a little more, which is out of law, evidently this
government will be working normally for 6-7 months. The ULP will
hardly manage to achieve significant results. It is said that victory
has many parents, defeat is an orphan. Gurgen Arsenyan entered the
executive by a calculation to use the administrative resource. For
elections are drawing nearer. Unlike civilized – normal – countries,
where voters decide the place of one force or another in the
government, in Armenia there are three ways that lead to power: money,
the mob of skinheads and the administrative resource. The ULP had the
first. The second is not so popular nowadays. And now perfect
happiness is guaranteed, for they already have the third. Here is a
simple calculation: if you possess two out of three factors that
guarantee victory, the chance to win is great. But most probably it
is not foreseen by the calculations of the ULP what victory itis going
to be and against who. For, to repeat again, voters in our country
still do not decide the place of one force or another in the
government, otherwise the ULP would not have appeared in the
parliament with a rating of zero point something.
ARAM ZAKARYAN
P.S. This calculation-plot of Gurgen Arsenyan does not appear to have
foreseen a role for either the voter or the public. It will work if
nothing happens. However, nothing is impossible in Armenia. Who would
have thought, for instance, that Robert Kocharyan will not run a third
time and will not tryto become prime minister?
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
