BABAYAN-BAZEYAN-ARAKELYAN: DISSOLVE TOGETHER
Hakob Badalyan
Lragir.am
23-08-2007 12:07:17
Against the monotonous and dull routine of the political sphere of
Armenia the news that have appeared in the media recently could be
considered as rather interesting. The Dashink Party (Alliance), the
National Rebirth and the Liberal Democratic Ramkavar Party are going
to unite. More exactly, Samvel Babayan and Albert Bazeyan are going
to dissolve their Dashink and National Rebirth parties and join the
Ramkavar Party. For joining the Ramkavar Party, time will show, as
to dissolving their parties, it is too late. The parties should have
been dissolved earlier before the public would come round from them
and their leaders. Samvel Babayan, for instance, should have dissolved
the Dashink Party when he said to withdraw from electoral district 37
where his opponent was Serge Sargsyan’s brother Sashik Sargsyan. Or
he should have renamed the Alliance with Serge Sargsyan Party.
Albert Bazeyan should have dissolved his National Rebirth Party
when it was still an idea. He would not have to hold a conference,
keep an office. Even if Albert Bazeyan did it with a little help
from his friend, as they put it, one should not waste this help only
because one has left the Republic Party but would not wish to leave
politics. Why give the nation a rebirth in vain if it was possible
to get a place in the People’s Party on the ticket of which Albert
Bazeyan rested on May 12?
On the other hand, however, Babayan and Bazeyan needed to have
something to dissolve to join the Ramkavar Party. The Ramkavar
Party is a serious party, so serious that even Ara Abrahamyan deals
with it. His distant debate with the leader of the Ramkavar Party
of Armenia regarding each other’s biographies and personal traits
is highly notable. Harutiun Arakelyan even had an opportunity to
display his skills of a former boxer when one night two attacked him
in Yerevan. Certainly, it is possible that they were Samvel Babayan and
Albert Bazeyan who wanted to make Arakelyan accept them to the Ramkavar
Party. Now everything is possible in the political sphere of Armenia.
The problem is that the Ramkavar Party does not need either Samvel
Babayan or Albert Bazeyan. Logically it is so. What can a person
give a party who stated on the eve of the parliamentary election
that he is principled and determined to go all the way in electoral
district 37, resolved to crack down on election fraud, committed to
thousands of voters, assures that there is someone at least who went
through the war in Karabakh and unlike the others he will act with
similar valor in the political sphere, but suddenly he states he will
not run in the election in electoral district 37 to avoid political
manipulations? Before admitting such a figure to a party and even to
work the management should demand a guaranty from the society that
his presence in the given organization will not cause the society to
change its attitude towards this organization.
Or what can someone give a party who is used to leaving, for
whom resigning and retreating has become a political credo? Albert
Bazeyan’s departure started at the National Assembly where he was a
deputy speaker for a while.
He has been resigning since this position. He resigned from the post
of mayor for a few times, then he resigned from the Republic Party
instead of staying and struggling with his proponents. Now perhaps he
goes to the Ramkavar Party to resign. In other words, Albert Bazeyan
is merely looking for a place in the political sphere to resign. Can
such a person be useful to such a serious party as the Ramkavar Party?
But this is not the problem. It is not the worn popular rating of
these figures that makes their affiliation with the Ramkavar Party
unfavorable.
Simply the Ramkavar Party should have dissolved already. At the
time when its leader Harutiun Arakelyan stated that they will fight
election fraud in every possible way and afterwards he stated that
the Ramkavar Party was not going to run in the election and was put
up on the ticket of the Dashink Party.
On the other hand, however, Babayan, Bazeyan and Arakelyan with their
parties are worth one another, and this union should be encouraged
because, in fact, it will be the first union in the political sphere
of Armenia which will be based on the class, if it takes place, of
course. Meanwhile, the classification of the political sphere has
become a vital issue for Armenia.