"We are frail without professionals"
The initiating group of "Sardarapat" movement has decided to create an alternative parliament to be called National Parliament. The parliament's committee on social-economic issues held its first session today.
Jirair Sefilian, one of the founders of the initiating group, presented the objectives of the to be created committee and emphasized that the parliament will try to create a platform where experts of corresponding fields will be able to express themselves freely. With that purpose, the initiating group will include as many young professionals as possible because, according to Sefilian, "it is impossible to undertake qualitative reforms in the country without the youth."
According to him, the committee will include the potential of the Diaspora and will have centers in Yerevan and the Diaspora. According to Jirair Sefilian, corresponding experts of the Diaspora have already expressed their willingness to participate in the committee's activities. "We have the objective of combining the efforts of the entire nation and finally be able to establish statehood in our homeland," underlined Jirair Sefilian.
The committee's activities will lead to the creation of a concept of the given sphere which will make it clear to society what qualitative reforms mean. All activities will be made public which, according to Sefilian, will be new to Armenian politics.
In his speech, member of "Sardarapat" movement Hayk Balanyan stressed the guidelines according to which the parliament must implement the activities of the committee on social-economic issues. He did not wish to talk about the reasons behind Armenia's social-economic issues, such as oligarchs, monopolies and criminals and preferred to analyze "what is really happening in Armenia". According to him, there are 3 interwoven issues that are causing great danger to the economy and one of those issues is that Armenia "has turned into a country of agrarian services and has lost industry."
In addition, Armenia no longer has the strong working class and a developed middle class as it used to. The third current issue, according to Hayk Balanyan, is the massive emigration.
"None of the high-quality Armenian professionals are in Armenia. We need those professionals for the development of the state and the society and without them, it feels like we are frail and our society is incomplete. That is why our society can't perform all its functions," emphasized Hayk Balanyan.
