BAD CANDIDATE IS THE REMEDY
Hakob Badalyan
Lragir
Jan 25 2008
Armenia
When someone listens as the Armenian presidential candidates talk,
they are filled with envy because it is impossible to imagine the
problems of Armenia better and wish better things to Armenia. It has
always been the case in almost all the previous elections.
Apparently, this is the reason why in Armenia no election is held
as such because it is terribly difficult to choose among the perfect
candidates who appear to the Armenian society in every election. And
since the society cannot choose among good candidates, it is clear that
someone else has to make a choice instead of the society. They cannot
leave the country without a president. In this sense, the first step
required from the government to keep the election mechanism in Armenia
working should be providing several bad and worse candidates. It
would facilitate the choice for the society, and there would be no
need to elect instead of the society.
The government seems to be aware of this, and apparently in every
presidential election there are candidates who run in the election
on the government’s instruction, to serve as a background. However,
the opposite effect is produced, and as a rule the candidates do not
appear less smart than the government. In other words, if there is a
dominant opinion among the public that the most important condition for
the development of the country is the work of the election mechanism,
the election of government, ostensibly progress in the Republic of
Armenia has stopped due to the lack of bad candidates.
There are no bad candidates, all the candidates are good, and the
society cannot make a choice, and the government which is responsible
for stability in the country and shaping government has to make
a choice instead of the society. It follows that the Republic of
Armenia and the Armenian people will not benefit from a candidate
who will present distinct evidence to his awareness of problems and
undeniable resolutions but a candidate who will behave so bad that
will facilitate the choice for people, and the government will not
have to do what the society should do.
Possibly, this is the reason why the government resorts to
illegal actions in the election process, at least to appear to have
disadvantages. In other words, since the government cannot find a bad
background, the government self-denyingly functions as a background,
for the sake of progress and prosperity in the country. Meanwhile,
the society fails to understand, moreover, it misunderstands, and
thinks that the government is unlawful, and elects neither the good
candidate nor the government.
It seems that the situation is running into a deadlock. For many
people it may appear as a curious situation. However, this is the
reality. We lack bad candidates who are illiterate, hardly count
to 16 or 17, do not distinguish Armenia and Zambia, do not even
know which country’s presidential candidate they are, do not have
an election program and demand one from the society, exclaiming in
Kennedy’s spirit think not what I can do for you but think what you
can do for me. The existence of such a candidate would facilitate
the choice, answering the vital question "for whom not to vote"
because the picture that is there before the presidential election
2008 as one listens to the presidential candidates gives rise to one
answerless question "who should not be elected".
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
