It came out today that a set of politicians, including also Levon Ter-Petrossian, the Armenian National Congress (ANC) leader and the first President of the Republic of Armenia, and Artur Baghdasaryan, the Rule of Law Party (RLP) leader, had filed an application of rejecting their offices to the Central Election Commission (CEC). Therefore, www.aravot.am asked Stepan Danielyan, the head of the Collaboration for Democracy center, whether it meant that the Republican Party had won an overwhelming victory or whether it was a way of giving up the struggle. Our interlocutor responded, “I, as a citizen, don’t care whether they will assume the offices or not at all. The political forces that are called opposition have nothing to do in this parliament, one way or the other. As for the fact that pro-government candidates rejected the offices, one of the
explanations is that they had gotten an offer of an office in the Cabinet or the executive body. On the other hand, they are compelled to sign an application that they reject the office of an MP in advance and those applications are submitted without asking many of them.”
The political scientist explains this phenomenon in the following manner, “This means that not only the society, but also the MPs whose destiny depends on a piece of paper are subdued. And not only the society, but also the parliament is unfree.”
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S. Danielyan thinks that the solution is to put aside this political stage and to establish a new one and not to pin hopes on the political forces already used.
Tatev HARUTYUNYAN
