WHAT AND FROM WHOM OYP DEMANDS
James Hakobyan

LRAGIR.AM
14:55:22 – 13/04/2009

In the morning of the Holy Easter holiday, the Public TV was showing
the Parliamentary Hour TV program, in which course Heghine Bisharyan
candidate for Mayor, first number on the OYP (Orinats Yerkir) ticket
for Yerevan Council election was addressing the National Assemble. She
was complaining saying that the party got a great number of complaint
application which state that in schools and kinder gardens the staffs
are engaged in electoral processes of listing. Heghine Bisharyan
was stating this with an ardour particular to her, saying that
this is impermissible, such kind of institutions where our future
generation is being educated should not be engaged in electoral games,
the teachers and pedagogues should not be humiliated. She means of
course the phenomenon which we witness at every election, when in
offices, schools and kinder gardens, lists are being formed for the
governmental candidate, passport data are written down. Sure, it is
needed to complaint against this, but this phenomenon should be of
course prevented, and of course it is especially impermissible when
such actions are held in schools and kinder gardens.

But, surprisingly, it is the government to complaint against this
phenomenon. In other words, the government does it and complaints
at the same time. This is really surprising. And the OYP is
government. Consequently, Heghine Bisharyan is not logic to try to
win dividends with her oppositional behaviour while complaining of
that phenomenon at the Parliamentary Hour TV program, but it would be
logic to use the governmental levers and prevent this phenomenon. Is
not the OYP role very big in the Security Council? And the role of the
Security Council enhanced in our life. At least, Serge Sargsyan stated
this at his press conference. So, what impedes the OYP candidate to
bring up this question right to the Security Council with the help of
its leader Artur Baghdasaryan? Is this a less national security matter,
when the educational system becomes a means for electoral goals? Can
there be any other more important question for the national security,
when the education of the future generation is factually mutated and
the teacher staffs are engaged in serving the electoral interest of
a certain person. There is no need to try to seem honest on the TV,
but the opportunity of being government should be honestly taken
advantage of. The OYP explained its step of becoming part of the
government right in this way, saying that it wanted to use at least
this possibility to work. Let them work, let them prevent the step
of rendering the schools and kinder gardens an electoral means.

But it is clear why the OYP will not do that. The problem is that what
is done for Gagik Beglaryan, the electoral listings or so called lists
of 100% voters, is done for the OYP too, for the ARF Dashnaktsutyun,
as well as for the Bargavach Hayastan (BHK). That is why, none of
these parties will exercise any governmental lever in order to solve
this question. The point is that the government will just tell them
that Gagik Beglaryan’s victory is not only his victory or only the
Republicans’, but it is the victory of the whole system. And the OYP,
the Dashnaktsutyun and the BHK are a part of that system, hence, if
they do not want to contribute to the system victory, they do not have
any right to impede it either. It is impossible to have any anti-fact
against this answer if you are a member and live in the frames of that
system. And they have to be grateful that they are given a possibility
to voice their complaint during the Parliamentary Hour TV program.
From: Baghdasarian