MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
Anahit Danielyan
KarabakhOpen
28-06-2007 15:03:55
Recently four youth organizations have set up a youth election
headquarters and said to support Bako Sahakyan. The headquarters is
located at the office of Haiko Serund NGO.
We had informed that such a headquarters would probably be set up
but the initiators met us with strictures and denied everything in
their letter.
Anyway, this was followed by a statement of the representatives of
Haiki Serund during a round-table meeting held by the Unity youth
organization about their intention to set up a youth election
headquarters not to support one particular candidate but to call
the voters to vote. However, recently it has become known that the
headquarters supports Bako Sahakyan.
It is amazing why those young people denied the arrangement to
support the "common" candidate. Is there something bad about it
that they met "secretly" and discussed some questions, with only
a few youth organizations, of course. After all, it is ingenuous
to think it is possible to keep secrets in Karabakh, especially
in Stepanakert. Secrets are always revealed, and if someone does
something secretly, they must be ready to account when it becomes
known instead of "contorting" their stance.
Let the readers judge. The readers who remember from the previous
presidential election the youth organization set up on the eve
of the voting, which was provided with a large office, furniture
and computers in a few days. In other words, an attempt was made to
"bring together" young people on the eve of the election. Now perhaps
many do not remember this organization any more. Now this scenario has
been slightly modified, and instead of setting up a new organization,
an effort is made to "bring together" a few organizations to support
the common candidate besides some other NGOs, including the Union
of Azatamartiks of Artsakh, the Federation of Labor Unions, Helsinki
Initiative 92, etc.
Supporting the common candidate has affected different spheres like
a virus, including the public sector, which is amazing and funny
because the NGOs have set aside their goals and become engaged in
politics. Maybe these NGOs should be reshaped into parties. For
during the elections the NGOs are supposed to observe the election
and protect the citizens’ right to vote and not to shorten this right
by making calls for supporting the common candidate.
Dear friends, who is going to do your job? Thanks God, not all the NGOs
act similarly, otherwise no local observers would get registered with
the central electoral commission. And when an NGO tries to perform
its duties, it is asked to "mind its own business" and is nearly
declared a traitor.
For whatever reason, everything is in a mess in this pre-election
period, and everything is so illogical. Just like in Shakespeare’s
Much Ado about Nothing.