Editorial
OCTOBER 13, 2018
NA elections, fraught with a new parliamentary crisis
What are the parliamentary elections for and what does the government system formed by proportional elections imply?
It means that the power in RA belongs to the parties that present ways of development, and the society either approves their proposals or not. Whoever gets the most “YES” rules the country for the next 5 years, the rest criticize. In any case, that is the meaning of the elections: the National Assembly elections are considered a weighty measure of the processes taking place in the society.
Now, keeping this simple scheme in mind, let’s try to understand what the situation is in Armenia.
The former usurped the power and used the country’s resources for their narrow group interests. At one time, Serzh Sargsyan aptly called the ruling group a gang. That was the content and meaning of banditry. With the April 2016 four-day war, the government lost the last shred of legitimacy, it could not even provide security. The Armenian army armed with “weapons of the 80s” was an assessment of the effectiveness of the management system. It was the beginning of the end. The end came in April of this year.
Since 1991, Armenian society has had one main dream: a change of power. That dream came true, but the solution to the main problems facing society and the country remained uncertain. Let’s remind that according to the governance model of Armenia, the parties should propose the solutions, and the right to choose between them belongs to the people.
National Assembly elections will be held in the coming months. The most important issue is what the newly elected deputies will talk about in the new parliament, the “speaking place”, so that it will be of interest to the public.
In Armenia, the power belongs to the parties, and there is no president elected by national elections who can guarantee stability in emergency situations. However, the party field has collapsed. It implies a serious political and state crisis. There are no trust-inspiring parties, and there are no projects for the future.
The cycle was closed on one person, around whom different people gathered with different goals. “KP” will follow the path of ANM and RPA, because like them it was built in the core of the government and for the sake of the government. In the conditions of a political crisis, we will not choose a political development plan, but we will choose a person who has not yet proposed his plan to the public and, naturally, the people gathered around him did not come together for that non-existent idea and non-existent plan. This will be an election with closed eyes, that is, we will vote in the absence of a choice. many for Hope, a few for more tangible reasons.
Parliamentarianism is a state management system where power is separated into legislative and executive bodies, where the actual acting prime minister will make a list at his discretion, and no one doubts that this list will form an absolute majority in the parliament. This already contradicts the spirit of parliamentarism, and the championship will belong not to the legislature, but to the executive body.
The intrigue of the situation is that if parties with public trust are formed, we will again have a parliamentary crisis, because the real parties will remain outside the parliament, and the governing nomenclature will be represented inside. In fact, the main political processes will take place again in the street, which may again lead to a “change in the situation” and a new parliamentary crisis.