Epress.am News from Armenia
“Lately they have frequently subject me to blockade pressure [sic], particularly our servants in TV media,” said leader of the Marxist Party of Armenia David Hakobyan while meeting with journalists today and considering the presence of Armenia’s Public TV employees at the press conference a surprise. (Note that the Marxist Party of Armenia is not an officially registered political party.)
He noted that election campaigning has already begun and the prelude to election preparations, according to Hakobyan, are discussions related to electoral law:
“Making changes in electoral law under false, declarative pressures from Europe, in reality, we see reforms of an imitation nature.”
The Marxist leader then isolated, in detail, all the shortcomings of electoral law.
“Change in government takes place at the ends of bayonets, by blood, political adventurism, Bonapartism, parliamentary terrorism. We need that electoral law which can be the guarantor for normal elections and ideological generation change,” he said.
Speaking on the “Constitution developed by Yerkrapah [“homeland defenders”] Volunteers Union on Feb. 4, 1999,” Hakobyan said: “It says in the Constitution, universal electoral law. The electoral law framed within the Constitution is an absolute qualification electoral law, which subjects to social and political discrimination representatives of all those social classes who claim to enter into the parliamentary institute.”
Note, Hakobyan was making reference to the presidential elections of Feb. 4, 1998, and the alliance formed between Karen Demirchyan and Yerkrapah leader Vazgen Sargysan, who became parliamentary speaker and prime minister, respectively, in 1999. Both were fatally shot on Oct. 27, 1999, during the infamous Armenian parliamentary shooting.
“How many years can the same political faces continue to turn the institute of parliamentarism [sic] into a mausoleum? How many years do we continue to see the same criminal oligarchic faces, representatives of the criminal pack and no ideological generation change,” he said, who also proposed to limit the ‘presidential institute’ to two terms. Note that currently, an Armenian citizen can be elected president for two consecutive terms; however, after a certain interval, he can again run for president.
“In future elections, the entire blame of transforming change of government to stealing government [in essence, a coup] is on those who developed the electoral law, not on the public or human rights bodies. And the countless thickheaded degenerates in the institute of parliamentarism [sic] [i.e. parliamentarians] will have to answer to this in the future,” he said.