Analyst: Events over Catalonia is a bright example for Armenia

ArmInfo. What is happening  around Catalonia is an obvious lesson for Armenia, Hrachya  Arzumanyan, Director of the Center for Strategic Studies "Ashkharh"  (Stepanakert), an expert on military and national security issues,  expressed this opinion to ArmInfo. 

"The essence of the processes lies in the initial transfer of  Catalonia's initiative by the center - Madrid, and now it only has to  react to the steps of Barcelona, and this is nothing less than loss."  Since in the strategic context of review and forecasting the  situation, it is necessary to break the cycles of developing and  deciding the enemy, and not to be built in these cycles, which is  fraught with the emergence of unpredictable scenarios, "Arzumanyan  said.

The events taking place around the centrifugal moods in Catalonia,  according to the analyst, are a kind of a lesson for Armenia, where  after April 2018 the transition to the parliamentary system of  government will be finalized. Especially on the unsettled conflict  around Nagorno-Karabakh.

"Catalonia is a good example of the ineffectiveness of the  parliamentary system of government in times of crisis: in other  words, instead of acting continuously, as would be the case with the  presidential system of government, the parliament in Madrid only  meets and coordinates decisions that are late, which leads to the  defeat of the", Arzumanyan said.  On October 27, the Catalan  Parliament passed a resolution on the independence of the region. An  hour later, the Senate of Spain approved the application of Article  155 of the Constitution, allowing the direct administration of  central authorities in Catalonia. The Prime Minister of Spain,  Mariano Rajoy, announced the dismissal of members of the Ministry of  Education, including his head Carles Puigdemont. He also dissolved  the parliament and scheduled for December 21 early elections in  Catalonia.  Puigdemont refused to recognize Madrid's decisions and  called for "democratic resistance." On October 30, Spanish Foreign  Minister Alfonso Dastis did not rule out that the current crisis  could lead to the expansion of the status of Catalonia, excluding  independence, without excluding the possibility of participation in  the upcoming Puigdemont elections.