The elapsed week was annunciated by NA MP Nikol Pashinyan’s ardent speech from the Parliament tribune and the ANC’s fiery counter-propaganda against him. The relatives of “March 1” victims intervened in this case.
Pashinyan’s speech, in my opinion, covered both good and bad provisions, however, the parliamentarian is righteous in one matter. In most of our political parties, you can observe unreserved cult of personality and a unique exaltation driven by it (I am sorry, I cannot find the Armenian word for it), which once was also typical to him (Nicole).
The political parties appeared under this situation blindly justify every move of their party leaders and attack anyone who have doubts. As it happens in the case of former companions, harsh mutual accusations are voiced, which are not always fair. In particular, I think, it is a lie that Pashinyan acts by the order of the government authorities, as well as the parliamentarian’s allegation is wrong that the first President’s letter to Serzh Sargsyan was a petition.
But if we leave the emotional aspects of the debate aside and go back to its content (“formation of an institutional opposition”), then it must be said that Nikol Pashinyan’s approaches are not institutional at all. Let me illustrate you a few examples. If you’re used to wake up at 12 o’clock, but you have got a new job and you have to wake up at 8 a.m., then waking up early the next day can cause you stress, and you did not get used to waking up at 8 o’clock. Doctors recommend waking up at 11.45 a.m. at first, then at 11:30 a.m. and so on. If you are a student and have not opened the textbooks during the whole semester and learn the answers to the tickets only two days before the exam, then you can get an excellent mark at the exam, but your knowledge of this subject will be close to zero. If you are engaged in agriculture and have sown nothing throughout the spring or summer, have not irrigated and pruned but you want to harvest in the fall, then you cannot be called a very brilliant agronomist. And finally, if you master the technology of “favorably disposing” the crowd and are able to push it to particular actions, it does not yet mean that this crowd will build the country’s bright future.
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In short, to achieve success in something, you need to have patience, which is the “most institutional” feature that can be the pledge of the politician’s success in particular. No one is able to artificially mature neither the change of power (which is the key objective of opposition in any country), nor the formation of the opposition. Chinese wisdom says, “Keep calm and live on. Spring will come, and flowers will blossom by themselves.” Calm rather than sitting idle.
ARAM ABRAHAMYAN
