IS REVOLUTION POSSIBLE?

Lragir, Armenia
Dec 18 2006

The leader of the Liberal Progressive Party of Armenia Hovanes
Hovanisyan stated December 18 at the Pastark Club that although they
are against major quakes, "there is too much trash in the country
and evolutionary development would take 50 years. Consequently, we
need a movement and a shake-up to clean up this trash. Trash cannot
foster stability." Hovanes Hovanisyan had one impression from Robert
Kocharyan’s recent interview. "He did not say a new thing. He said
they will do everything to hold power."

According to the leader of the LPP, if this logic of the government
persists, the parliament as a political institution will become
obsolete, the end of parliamentarism will come. "The government does
not pursue progress and change in this country, and the principle is
who will give out more. The government is seeking for a miscarriage
of the political thought and removing political struggle from the
political sphere. They do their best to eliminate political dialogue
and ideas." In addition, the electoral campaign started too early,
the entire political sphere was monopolized, the media are crammed
with PR campaigns, "however, these campaigns are not always effective,
very often these campaigns bring evidence against themselves."

According to the LPP leader, the government is waging an internal
struggle and a struggle with the opposition, and the second is not
adequate to the steps of the competitor, "we have no political
opponents, the government responds to our ideals with gossip,
distortion, rejects a political dialogue, acts boyishly in this
process." If the government carries out this policy successfully,
it will eventually reach the degradation of the society, the society
will become a dull, castrated mass unable to make any decisions. At
the same time, Hovanes Hovanisyan does not exclude that electoral
fraud in 2007 will make the society rise, "and a process may start
which is called a revolution."

Hovanes Hovanisyan denounces only the Republican Party. According to
him, the Republican Party gave no new ideas to the Armenian nation in
the 21st century except the ideas of Garegin Nezhdeh. But the ideas
of Nezhdeh are formal for the Republicans. Moreover, in connection
with shaping the structure of the parliament in 2007 by government’s
scenario Hovanes Hovanisyan said, "the Republican Party has become
an errand political party. There are people who have not uttered a
word at the National Assembly over the past decade but are likely to
run for parliament." By the way, Hovanes Hovanisyan thinks that no
one in Armenia can mention a definite rating of one political party
or another because "the elections have been falsified since 1995."