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.