POLITICAL POWERS SHOULDN’T SHUN DIALOGUE

Political Scientist Levon Shirinyan was the guest of “Hayatsk” club yesterday.

The events following the presidential elections obliged the authorities to find certain situational solutions, which are effective according to the Political Scientist, but still temporary.
For the country’s progress, we need conceptual solution, based on serious reforms, realized in the atmosphere of mutual agreement.
“Each country is guided by certain imperatives in pursuing their policy. In our case one of these imperatives is firstly Armenia’s geography, which dictates our policy.
Second – our civilization and cultural identity, which means to reject abstract judgments. As for our culture, it is Christian and European and the best evaluation in this regard was given by Brusov, who said: “The East and the West culturally synthesize in Armenia.”
Third – the fact of having a great Diaspora, those who have lost their motherland and have faced genocide,” Mr. Shirinyan says.
He believes American political model is the best for the solution of the problems faced by our country and proposed to start the reforms from there: “The model working in our reality is the mixture of the Russian and French models. Whereas the historical experience shows that France has seen lots of revolutions, repeating the constitutional crises. Russia has also seen concussions.
But the US political system hasn’t seen a constitutional crises for the past centuries, besides that the country develops dynamically. There is one condition, which is important for us as well. It has got a great mobilization importance in the situation of crises. In my view our political and legal thought must work in this direction.”
The next proposal made by the Political Scientist was directed to the system of social problems. The principle of justice is in the bases of our cultural mentality and must find its expression in the doctrine of the social-economic issues. “There is such an example. It has been elaborated in post-war Germany, where economy used to solve the social issues. Principles, such as freedom, law and order, acceptable for Armenian people lie upon the bases of the doctrine. It is elaborated in such a way that the entrepreneur is himself interested in the people’s welfare, because he knows that otherwise his economy won’t develop.
And in such circumstances of social-economic market relations the state commits itself to the role of the so-called football commentator, because it can’t establish the game rules it can only make comments. In my opinion this doctrine should; also be nationalized.”
Touching upon the existing internal political situation L. Shirinyan draw our attention to the fact that there is a lack of opposition in the parliament in its classical sense. “The establishment of the political coalition solved an issue of vital importance. The President is the representative of the right block, there is no left block, and the existence of the latter would have contributed to the formation of the pro-central block. In the near future we must contribute to it. We must help opposition make a transition to the parliament.”
The Political Scientist explained the existing arrangement of political powers by the unique post-election developments.
“In my view in the near future we need parliamentary elections. I can’t say exactly when because in this situation it is impossible. Everything depends on the future developments, but we must hold parliamentary elections and the President must be the one to head this process,” he announced.
Political powers shouldn’t shun dialogue. Those who refuse dialogues must be publicly spoken about, saying that these powers or people refuse dialogues. People must know about it and according to the speaker, they shouldn’t follow such people. But this should be done not by means of an advocacy or discrediting them but mentioning the facts.
NAIRA KHACHATRYAN

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