Was Dr. Bernard Ryon, the main hero of Albert Camus’s novel ‘The Plague’, fighting against the plague? I think not. He was trying to treat the disease, and save the patients. People who promise to “fight against evil” and deliver fiery speeches in this respect either are collecting political points, or are simply in delusion.
Many of us (probably driver by Soviet inertia) think that the evil are the businessmen, rich people, and they should be “punished” for their wealth, to fight against the oligarchs. Against whom? For example, Samvel Aleksanyan? How? By shutting down the supermarkets? But hundreds of people working there are not the enemies of the nation, they are our citizens who are earning their bread. The problem, therefore, is not with “getting” into the fight but treating the “plague”.
The “plague”, in my opinion, is the monopoly: political and economic. Legislative restrictions should be brought up for the latter. No entrepreneur shall have the right to own more than 50% of the volume of products in the market. The same in the politics. Today, the role of the Parliament by current Constitution is already huge. However, this role is now purely theoretical, because the president of the country has an absolute majority in the National Assembly, and all kinds of coalitions are driven not by the necessity, but the “good will” of the majority.
Is it possible to change the Constitution so that regardless of the form of government? No party in the National Assembly can have the absolute majority, more than 49 percent of the vote, and if a party gathers, let’s say, 56 percent of the vote during the elections, the “extra” 7 percent, anyway, shall be split between the rest of the parties. I do not know, the word in such matters belongs, of course, to the specialists.
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PAP leader Gagik Tsarukyan, recently, has said that in the next national elections the victory will bypass Melik-Adamyan Street. I agree with two hands up, it cannot happen that the electorates give their votes to one and the same party in the course of 15 years, even under much more favorable social conditions. But I am against that this time too PAP (or any other party) shall receive the absolute majority and be able to make autocratic decisions. If it happens, then Melik-Adamyan Street will be just moved to Brandy Factory. Almost with the same staff.
ARAM ABRAHAMYAN
