THE MAJORITY HAS A CLEAR-CUT OPINION
- The minority has to admit its defeat
The radical opposition representatives who have been organizing demonstrations and marches since February 20 were, during the recent days, persistently advancing the absurd hypothesis as though L. Ter-Petrosyan, with his 21 percent votes, is the “winning candidate” of the RA presidential elections. As “evidence”, they referred to the crowded demonstrations and protest marches organized in the capital city during the past week. Such “logic” helped overlook the fact that the 21 percent received by L. Ter-Petrosyan made up around 351 thousand votes in numerical expression, whereas incumbent Prime Minister Serge Sargsyan has received 862 thousand votes, i.e. 2.5 times more than the ex-President.
It turns out that persistently refusing to admit its defeat, the minority is trying to change the ratio of forces, and this, as we know, is in contravention of the Constitution and the laws of any democratic state.
In civilized countries it doesn’t even occur to anyone to dispute the election results, given such a big difference among the contenders.
Moreover, the defeated candidates do not absolutely start conversations on such topics in order not to cut a foolish figure in public. It is possible to find a lot of faults with the electoral system, but to insist that it is capable of distorting the results 2.5 times means to sign below a conclusion on one’s own inability to realize his guilt.
The fact that despite the difference recorded as a result of the elections, they unconditionally become subject to dispute and that the post-electoral become a tool vs. a goal, is unfortunately obtaining the “force of tradition” in our reality. For a moment, it seemed to L. Ter-Petrosyan that it was possible to gather several thousands of people in the square and to overturn the situation throughout the country. As to Arthur Baghdasaryan, he may gather around the same number of proponents; however, this doesn’t imply the emergence of another self-styled “winning candidate”. Moreover, the activists of the Armenian pan-National Movement and “Yerkrapah”, as well as those who work in Khachatour Soukysayan’s fair are enough for organizing medium-scale demonstrations.
In fact, the aggressive minority, which has received 2.5 times less votes, is trying to impose its will on the overwhelming majority. Instead of being guided by the task of solving some problems troubling us, such majority guides itself by the slogan “We’ll Win”, aiming to impose its will on the people. And if the goal is to win the majority of the people, and the tool is the slogan “Levon-President”, the fact that their candidate was defeated in the elections is really of trivial importance for people guided by such mentality.
This is probably the reason that the proponents of the Prime Minister who ran for election with the slogan “Ahead, Armenia!” began to realize that it was too early for them to return to routine work. And realizing that, they also began organizing rallies throughout the Republic, with the most recent one held yesterday in the Republican Square. The February 26 rally showed the real place of the majority in whose name statements are being made on the Theatrical Square.
The aggressiveness of the minority may also become “contagious” for the majority and lead to serious confrontations. And the task of the state is to prevent such incidents and rule out the endless repetition of the nonsensical attempts aimed at inciting “revolutions”, something which L. Ter-Petrosyan’s proponents initiated and in which they ultimately failed.
- ARMEN TSATOURYAN
Discussion
Rafael wrote:
"In civilized countries it doesn’t even occur to anyone to dispute the election results, given such a big difference among the contenders."
The reporter speaks of civilized countries. As an American-Armenian today's Armenian people are anything but civilized.
A civilizes country doesn't have
1. ballot stuffing
2. proxy interference
3. voter intimidation
4. "Lfik Samo" and "nemets Rubo" running around election day and beating people up
5. certain relative of our prime minister leaving his home country not declaring any amount of money, and arriving to the US and declaring $30 million
6. Don't imprison peaceful activists
and the list goes on....
Let's face it the politics in Armenia and the country itself is a joke, a circus act, a laughing matter. and this is why the US didn't bother to get involved, as they did in the Georgian presidential election in publically supporting Sakhashvili, as noted by Senator Joe Bidden
MIHRAN wrote:- Rafael
"In civilized countries it doesn’t even occur to anyone to dispute the election results, given such a big difference among the contenders."The reporter speaks of civilized countries. As an American-Armenian today's Armenian people are anything but civilized.
A civilizes country doesn't have
1. ballot stuffing
2. proxy interference
3. voter intimidation
4. "Lfik Samo" and "nemets Rubo" running around election day and beating people up
5. certain relative of our prime minister leaving his home country not declaring any amount of money, and arriving to the US and declaring $30 million
6. Don't imprison peaceful activists
and the list goes on....
Let's face it the politics in Armenia and the country itself is a joke, a circus act, a laughing matter. and this is why the US didn't bother to get involved, as they did in the Georgian presidential election in publically supporting Sakhashvili, as noted by Senator Joe Bidden
RAFAEL
I SHOULD HAVE READ YOUR ARTICLE A BIT EARLIER. YOU ARE 100% CORRECT IN REGARD TO ARMENIAN DEMOCRACY. IT IS MOST UNFORTUNATE.ARMENIA'S NEW GENERATION SOME 15-20 YEARS LATER...WILL BE ABLE TO ESTABLISH REAL DEMOCRACY AND IF EVERY THING GOES THE WAY IT SHOULD...
MIHRAN- Rafael
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