TWO WAYS FOR THE COUNTRY’S DEVELOPMENT
- Interview with SHAVARSH KOCHARYAN, Head of the National Democratic Party
“Mr. Kocharyan, to what extent is the number of votes obtained by the candidates as a result of the elections regular or unexpected, and what are the political causes?”
“The ex-President received quite a large number of votes, and the fact itself is illogical. Estimating his political activity, we can say that during the whole pre-election stage this particular candidate was promising to fight all the unlawful phenomena unacceptable to the people, whereas he himself was the author of all that. I don’t rule out the possibility that the votes he obtained result not only from the assessment of his political activity but also from the use of certain political technologies and psychological impact.
To properly understand what happened, it is worth remembering the phenomenon of Arkadi Vardanyan’s. He was a citizen of the Russian Federation who could have quite restricted ambitions, and he appeared in our internal political life from some unknown place. But in a short period of time, he managed to gather tens and thousands of people and organize a protest rally.
In this case, it is difficult to speak about special technologies, powerful financial and foreign intervention. None of these factors can be ruled out as far as the former President is concerned, but the general idea is that the overwhelming majority of our people do not want to live in such conditions.
The people want to live in Armenia. They are dissatisfied and do not tolerate shadow corrupt practices and impunity. They want to live in a fair country and be protected.”
“But as a matter of fact, the candidate you mention wanted to establish à ‘one-man power’ and not build a ‘new Armenia’.”
“This is also the result of another syndrome existing in our society. There is a belief among the people that elections are not a way of solving such problems. Leaning on their negative experience, the voters just try to decide which candidate has chances to come to power, instead of considering the given candidate’s program and the existing situation. The other circumstances are pushed to the background, and the factor of rebelling against the state becomes a primary task.
This was the ace used by the ex-President who, with the help of certain technologies, simply instilled false thoughts into the people, saying that he received support by the Army, the Police, the intelligence services and the civil servants. There were some officials who later confirmed such false information in their statements. Under the influence of various impulses, his listeners obliterated from their memories their ideas about the former President. The belief that he couldn’t carry out the promised changes because he himself was the author was being neutralized.
Unfortunately, this enabled him to become the leader of the protesting electorate and gather under his banner the dissatisfied mass of people from all the strata of society. But what happened cannot be considered as peaceful rallies because among the people who gathered under his banner there were also slaughterers, plunderers and ‘Yerkrapah’ members who never participated in the Artsakh war.”
“Nonetheless, our society is somehow split apart. How is it possible to overcome such internal challenge?”
“Both our society and country can no longer be the same as they were before the elections. There are two possible ways of development. It is possible to continue strengthening the system of one-man power and thus, continue the activity initiated by the former President.
The alternative is the further strengthening of the all the state institutions in order to prevent such disorders from happening any more and move towards democracy. It requires large-scale system reforms. This should now be the primary task of the state. And if the system of one-man power continues to strengthen, the number of dissatisfied people will increase. Power in Armenia will turn out to be sitting on a mine that may go off at any moment. But in conditions of accomplishing society, the dissatisfied people will gradually decrease in number.
After the rough clashes that took place on March 1, slow steps are already dangerous. The state must be able to overcome the existing challenge, and this may lead to the formation of the upcoming strategy.”
- GEVORG HAROUTYUNYAN
Discussion
Henry wrote:
Go to hell, Robert.
Who the hell are you to talk in the name of our nation.
You are nobody.- Henry wrote:
No no,
Armenia has only two possible futures:
1. Becomes a modern country life the baltic countries.
2. Continue its way to become backward country like those of the middle-east and Africa.
Right now the path is clear. It is the second one: on the way to become a backward banana republic without any bananas!
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