"Fact" daily writes:
Yesterday, there were hearings in the parliament on the topic of "On Amendments and Additions to the Constitutional Law of the RA Electoral Code" and a package of related draft laws.
In some episodes, the hearings were heated, especially when the representatives of the opposition field expressed their views on the intended "covert" changes and their noticeable goals.
In general, this, we mean the cover change, is no less, and maybe more important circumstance for the political field of Armenia than, say, the election of Trump.
But the changes to the "Electoral Code", and if we call things by their names, aimed at making the code meaningless, it seems that even the politicized circles or strata of the public are not so interested.
What is it about? In particular, the Pashinyan government proposes to introduce such a change in the "Electoral Code" constitutional law. "If the state of martial law or state of emergency is declared after the moment of summarizing the preliminary results of the elections of the National Assembly or local self-government bodies and validating them with the minutes, until the formation of the newly elected National Assembly, the formation of the council of elders, or the submission of the results of the elections with the majority electoral system to the governor, then a state of martial law or state of emergency will be declared. from the moment the electoral process is considered to be suspended by law, except for the special cases provided by this article regarding the stages of the electoral process following the moment of summarizing the preliminary results of the election voting and validating them with the protocol".
Moreover, the overwhelming majority of the National Assembly has already accepted this tortuous amendment in the first reading.
If we "translate" the aforementioned into normal, understandable Armenian, Nikol Pashinyan and his CP say that during any election, in the hours following the voting, they can declare a military or emergency state, which means that the results of the election are nullified or not. are recognized.
To put it even more simply, during any election, during the counting of votes following the voting, as soon as Nikol Pashinyan (or the government of the day) sees that he did not receive enough votes, he cannot announce false or false numbers, he just declares a military or emergency state. , canceling the results of the election and continuing to ride a bicycle in glory, excuse me, to be in office, to be paid a bonus, to be "paid" and so on.
Basically, Nikol Pashinyan and his CP are preparing in every possible way for the elections, and more precisely, they are preparing for the event called "election", provided that they are guaranteed to keep the power.
Moreover, realizing that it would be almost impossible to do this legally, they change the laws from Himikwan so that they can reproduce through any illegality.
It is clear, isn't it, that there is very little possibility that there will be a need to declare a military or emergency state right after the end of the voting and in the interval between recording the voting results.
In theory, yes, it is possible for a natural or man-made disaster to occur just after 8:00 PM on voting day. But the problem here is not the state of emergency, but the martial law.
Basically, the only option for this is an enemy attack, war. In this case, naturally, we cannot rule out that Nikol Pashinyan, seeing that he is losing the elections, will simply ask his beloved Aliyev to attack Armenia, so that Pashinyan has a reason to declare martial law and cancel the election results.
It is self-evident that the change proposed by the KP is not only anti-democratic, it is also blatantly anti-democratic.
It is an openly autocratic bill aimed exclusively at the self-reproduction of power. Or it is like that, it is a kind of symbiosis of the bastion "democracy" - a mutated "democracy".
The fact that Nikol Pashinyan and his group will try in every way, in all possible and impossible ways, moreover, at any cost, to cling to the power until the end, we think, is not a secret for anyone. For them it is a matter of life and death.
The key question here is different. And what is the non-Pashinyan part of the political field, or more simply, the opposition, ready for?
With what moods and preparations is he approaching the elections (ordinary or extraordinary, it doesn't matter)? What problem do the other forces put before themselves in connection with the possible elections?
Do they want to be in the "honorable" second-third-fourth places, or do they want to finally carry out a change of government, free the country and society from the power of this group of destroyers? This is the real question. And one more thing that the authors of the cap change did not take into account or did not take into account at all.
Of course, they can write and adopt hundreds of new "laws". both the hammer and the nail are in their hands.
They can even pass a law that there should be no more elections in Armenia, and Pashinyan should rule forever, and in his absence, his fellow countryman. Can they?
But if your hope and calculation is that when you see that the voting results are not in your favor, and by declaring martial law, you will remain in power, then you should also keep in mind one simple thing. under such conditions, public sentiment may have reached such a boiling point that no one will look at the law, including the letter and paragraph of the amended law.
It is not desirable for any country, but one cannot forget about the properties of an aggravated buzzard. This is in general.
ARMEN HAKOBYAN
