ARFD IS AGAINST GRAVE STABILITY
Support A1+!“A country will never prosper if on the one hand the opposition wants to get rid of the authorities, and on the other hand, the authorities chase and disgrace their rivals,” said ARF Dashnaktsutyun Supreme Board member Armen Rustamyan.
Armen Rustamyan is against a struggle which is end in itself: struggle is a means and not purpose.
“We don’t want grave stability which is end in itself,” said Rustamyan.
According to the ARFD member Armenia lacks oppositions which might be an alternative to the authorities. He doesn’t endorse absolute power either.
If the president, the NA Speaker and the prime minister represent the same party it is no use speaking of the system of checks and balances.
As for NA Speaker Tigran Torosyan’s announcement that after the Constitutional amendments a strong candidate will represent the parliamentarian majority, Rustamyan said,
“If we imagine the administrative force, the force of the administrative resource of the government, if we think that the state must be like a mechanism for pressure, in this sense the authoritarian government is the strongest. However, we know how such governments end up.”
Today Armen Rustamyan also reflected on the parliamentarian election shortcomings. He thinks the electoral system in Armenia has faults, such as vote faking or intimidation. “And this is the reason why the voters do not fully use their right to vote. This right is either tampered or taken away under pressure. Both methods are used in Armenia. And it will take us long to get rid of this,” he said.
According to the ARFD member, the presidential election will also have faults. “For the time being, we will make efforts to reduce these faults. There is an important circumstance, however, which will make the presidential election different from the parliamentary election,” Armen Rustamyan says.
Rustamyan voices hope that the presidential elections will be conducted in a more civilized way. Armen Rustamyan reiterated that Dashnaktsutyun will name its own candidate. Armen Rustamyan assured that the candidate will be a member of the party. However, he declined to mention any names. He says the Supreme Meeting will name the candidate in a month.
To A1+’s question related to Bardzrashen Village Head Kamo Babayan’s participation in a June 9 murder in Nubarashen, Rustamyan said, “The ARFD village head was simply passing by and couldn’t remain indifferent to the violence. He had interfered to prevent further tragic consequences whereas the press presented him as the murder. This is an absurd.
According to witnesses, Kamo Babayan was an accomplice and beat Gevorg Gabrielyan to the death.
