DEATH OF PARTIES

Lragir.am
21/12/09

The events taking place within the Armenian Social-Democratic Hnchakyan
party once again revealed one of the most serious issues of Armenia –
the non-formation of the Armenian party system. In addition, it is
a total issue regarding both the oppositional and the governmental
spheres. The concept of a party seems to be mutated just from the
beginning and it cane never be corrected and from some point, the
upcoming generation will not be able to abandon it and to form a
modern party system.

The point is that the political figures of the so-called new generation
also participate in the events taking place within the parties which
means that they picked up with "honor" the baton from their elder
partners and are ready to promote their "job". And the general job
which is to be considered the empowering of the country and the
society, regresses at a high speed.

Each new example of events taking place within the parties shows how
unperceptive the system based even on the best persons is and how
unperceptive the mechanisms that depend on them are too. In each
party of Armenia, including the oppositional parties, there are
all the vices which exist in the Armenian governmental system. They
are superfluous to be counted but the most important deserves being
dwelt on. Within the Armenian party system, the internal democratic
institution lacks completely, or in case it exists, it is not real
just like the democracy by the government. And this is the reason why
like for the power of the country, for the party leadership fights are
taking place which start and end with intrigues and in the end, those
who are more powerful from physical and material point of view "win".

And there are no system mechanisms to clam such situations down or
to resist them and if there are, no one cares about them because
parties are just from the beginning based on persons, and after the
same persons, proceeding from culture, write down some mechanisms
being at the same time sure that in practice they are never going
to solve any problem. The result is that almost all the parties of
Armenia without exception do not have internal resources of resistance
and any disagreement in the party becomes something like a mortal
disease which brings about a new struggle for the leadership of the
party because the mechanisms to persuade each other, to explain things
lack at all. Just like the state administrative system.

And under these conditions, without going into details of the events
taken place within different parties which the greater part of the
society remembers, let us think about how internal party system can
form an alternative for the state administrative system in case they
are the separate bearers of the vices of the same system.