Political struggle gets more tense day by day and even now it’s predictable that the competition is not going to proceed in the frames of correctness and politeness. Moreover the word correctness is a pretty abstract one because it may have different definitions for many people. The internal political competition must proceed not in the frames of correctness but law. Therefore, in this aspect we will try to analyze the inner political processes. We are going to base on three components – police, advocacy and political assessments. Let’s start from advocacy. Governmental channels are throwing mud on Levon Ter-Petrosyan and his teammates day and night. In terms of law there is no violation here. It is up to them, let them do what they wish. Several opposition newspapers are doing their best to respond to them. It’s their job. Those are private newspapers and they have the right to express whatever opinion they wish. The problem here is that the role of the “hard artillery” advocacy of the government is submitted by the public TV channel. And as you know the public channel is not a private one. It exists due to the taxes of average citizens (includes also the ones, who gathered in the Liberty Square on October 26) of Armenia. Therefore it doesn’t have the right to obey the orders of only the government. SO what do we have now? It turns out that except for the public TV channels all the other channels operate in the framework of the law. On October 23 special forces of police attack the peaceful citizens, who were announcing about the rally to be held on October 26. They use violence against people, use special tear-casing gas, some get arrested and others were charged. Moreover, during that period a police colonel (Sashik Afyan) in front of everybody says that he doesn’t guide by the law and that he is the law at the moment and can do whatever he finds right. This means that in the aspect of law a violation is taking place here and abuse of position. This person should have been at minimum fired for his words. We are repeating this is not passing beyond the frames of correctness but it is a violation of law. And if the law is violated the culprit is the government not the opposition. Now let’s speak about political assessments. In the Liberty Square the First President of Armenia Levon Ter-Petrosyan made a number of accusations and even mentioned names of government officials. If the government followed the law it should have either file criminal cases against the people, who were accused by the First President or blame Ter-Petrosyan of belying people. And what did Robert Kocharyan do? He said that he has a lot to remind the former government. Let’s try to review those things to be reminded in the framework of law. If Kocharyan is to remind the former government of the previous misdeeds then he had made a crime for not punishing the former government officials, who have violated the law. If I am not mistaken the RA Criminal Code has an article about “knowing and not informing”. Or let’s review the issue from the other side. The whole problem is that the law forbids the statesmen (including the president) conduct advocacy or anti-advocacy and his statement that he is going to remind the First President of certain things is an obvious black PR. In other words this problem must be reviewed in the framework of the law. The interesting thing is that why we should follow the unwritten laws instead of the written ones.
