DEPUTY SPEAKER COVERS UP CRIME
Hakob Badalyan

Lragir.am
19-09-2007 13:05:52

Vahan Hovanisyan, five minutes to presidential candidate when
the ARF Dashnaktsutyun’s General Meeting decided that he and Armen
Rustamyan must compete for being the party’s "own candidate", stated
that the society should know which president will owe his election
to an organized force and which president will owe his election to
criminals. In fact, here is a frank pronouncement. Generally, it is
difficult to accuse any member of Dashnaktsutyun of dishonesty. They
all use the dishonesty that the Republicans commit. And the Republicans
do not trust dishonesty to Dashnaktsutyun perhaps because they fear
that they will spoil everything, and the "state of things will change"
not only for Dashnaktsutyun but also for them.

Apparently, however, the situation has changed, and Dashnaktsutyun
nominated two presidential candidates at once, and one of the
candidates hinted that a president may be elected who will owe his
election to criminals.

Perhaps Vahan Hovanisyan should already learn since he is a mature and
experienced politician, that people know whom each president owes for
election. People know which president is elected, or which president
is simply appointed to that position. Meanwhile, people may doubt that
Vahan Hovanisyan does not know who is backed by a political force, and
who is backed by criminals. If he knows, he is expected to announce the
names. Why does the representative of the ARF Bureau, the ARF candidate
or the minicandidate fail to specify which presidential candidate,
which of his likely opponents he suspects of intention to become
president with the help of criminals? Or did Vahan Hovanisyan mean
the competition between him and Armen Rustamyan? The society may have
different thoughts if the Dashnaktsutyun comrade does not give the name
but makes customary statements. Which one could be backed by criminals?

Perhaps the deputy speaker of the National Assembly should have
already been invited to the office of prosecutor general, although
the procuracy is perhaps still celebrating the reappointment of Aghvan
Hovsepyan, and the criminals use the opportunity and attack reporters
and shoot at each other in the yard in the middle of the day. But as
soon as the celebrations end, perhaps besides catching the criminals
the procuracy should invite Vahan Hovanisyan for a talk, and if he
hides the name of the candidate which may be elected president with the
support of criminals not only from the society but also from the law
enforcement agencies, it means the member of the ARF Bureau covers up a
crime that will be committed. Maybe everyone, including the government,
is used that Dashnaktsutyun may say anything, all they want is that
Dashnaktsutyun do nothing. This is another problem though. But the
law-enforcement agencies must make sufficient efforts to protect the
security of the country. Meanwhile, the country has no security if the
presidential candidate, let alone the president, relies on criminals.