HOW TO BLOCK THE FLUNKEYS’ WAY

After the inauguration of the President and the appointment of the Prime Minister, the formation of the new government has become an agenda issue. The new government will certainly consist of professionals having many years’ experience in separate spheres, as well as representatives of the political parties that have joined the quadrilateral coalition agreement.
The failure to properly combine the principles of the political parties with the principles of professionalism was one of the most important omissions of the human resource policy of the past few years. And as a result, the executive often came face to face with sad, sometimes even curious facts.
The fact that the nomination of separate individuals for different positions within the frameworks of the coalition agreement was not done in a public manner is not something new either. The issues were actually resolved by the top figures of the parties and their closest people who often guided themselves by the principle of personal ties.
Let’s recall at least how the issue of having a literate and competent Minister of Culture had turned into a specific kind of problem. Based on the principles of the coalition, the sphere of culture was, during the past years, entrusted to individuals who acted absolutely in contravention of the definition of the term “culture”.
The reason is that the appointment of human resources by the leaders of parties was of somewhat “imperative” character, as it was difficult to even think that the forces which had formed a coalition many times in the past did not have such human resources that could form the image of literate and decent officials; let alone professionalism.
During the recent years, the real cause of that phenomenon became clear. The major part of the Ministers and Deputy Ministers appointed by party “quotas” were those people who used to act as “flunkeys” for the top figures of the given parties. And in the present-day conditions, when there are simultaneously 4 parties some way or another involved in the process of forming the government, the risk of repeating the mistakes of the past is increasing as well.
The new President and Prime Minister are again faced with the following hard dilemma: “party or professionalism?” The necessity of forming a broad political cooperation requires that the decision of the given party (which, in this particular case, is the same as the decision of its leader) be respected in an unreserved manner, but the necessity of maintaining and strengthening the rating and the reputation of the new authorities simply necessitates the adoption of double standards in the process of choosing each particular candidate. That is, to combine the principles of the parties with the requirements of professionalism and elementary culture.
Therefore, we believe it’s time for the coalition government to replace the principle of “sphere distribution” with the principle of the “general human resource bank”. This means it’s possible to previously draw up a general list of potential leaders nominated by all the 4 parties, so as the President and the future Prime Minister will be able select the professional and competent human resources, based on the principle of the proportionality of the seats allocated to the parties.
The number of the portfolios belonging to each party will be based upon the agreement of the parties involved in the coalition; however, the principle of the “general human resource bank” will make it possible to carry out a double filtration and rule out the repetition of the flagrant omissions observed in the human resource policy during the past years. If, for instance, the given party does not have an appropriate candidate for the Minister of Culture or Town Building, it will be offered other spheres for which serious and professional human resources have been proposed.
Such mechanisms of combining party affiliation with professionalism will guarantee the solution of the major task of keeping up the rating and reputation of the whole government and finally contribute to maintaining and increasing the political rating of separate parties involved in it.
So, this will be to the benefit of everybody and first of all – the people who badly need competent, literate and compassionate leaders.
“HAYOTS ASHKHARH”

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