Difficult Choices on Election Day
Artashes Boyajian offers his opinion on the choices on offer to voters next Tuesday for the 19 February presidential election in Armenia. Although the blogger omits being paid to vote for a particular candidate, the choices on offer appear to be pretty much this.
1) Not to go at all is civically the most passive position but morally can be justifiable in the current conditions of Armenia;
2) To go and vote against all in any round of elections is a civic statement […], and morally you are on the high ground since you are not legitimizing the perverted and unfair system;
3) To go and vote (in any round) for a candidate with whose declared platform and goals you are in principled agreement is the regular civic actvism of a citizen […].
4) To go and vote (in the second round) for a candidate in whose principles you have no trust, whose track record screams of deceit and unfairness only because he is, so to say, “the lesser of two evils” is civically irresponsible and morally unacceptable. […] In this scenario, it is practically a duty of the self-respecting citizen to go and definitively cross out both candidates.
Sad but true and how the 19 February presidential election is shaping up to be. It’s also worth pointing out that any candidate who loses will probably not accept the outcome which makes the situation even worse. The election will probably instead be decided on the streets.
- Published:
- 02.14.08 / 3pm by Onnik
- Category:
- Armenia, Armenia Presidential Election 2008, Blogs, Campaign, Candidates, Democracy, News Briefs, Opinion
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