Electoral mechanisms don’t work in Armenia; they have been destroyed, eliminated since 1995. No intellectual giant, no president, no MP, no oppositionist, even if they are completely comprised of goodwill can restore those in one or two elections. Perhaps, my comparison goes too far, but I recalled a story – when a child from a children’s home is adopted, at first, he gets surprised that he is not beaten, and then he starts to behave so badly that the family wants him to return to the children’s home as soon as possible. How much patience, how much delicacy, in the end, how much love is needed to integrate that child into that family and eventually into society! Representatives of our political elite don’t have that patience and delicacy – they are for easy solutions. The government that has been making our citizens degenerate for 17 years continues to do that on a larger scale. The current opposition that actively participated in that degeneration in the 1990s pretends that “the immediate change of the regime” will solve all problems, including the problem of legitimacy.
All this notwithstanding, although fair elections are not possible in Armenia in the near future, in some cases government behaves more impudently and sometimes more restrained. The second type of behavior manifested itself in nominating Arman Sahakyan in Gyumri. Firstly, he knows residents of Gyumri as an owner of a football club, secondly, he gave a lot of interviews during the election campaign, had a lot of meetings with voters, which were attended by the mass media. Even if they hadn’t attended, those meetings were put on the candidate’s Facebook page. In a nutshell, he tried to convince voters that he could work in the parliament.
In Avan, the government decided to arrange an unknown person’s election using stiff methods, knowing quite well that the unknown “Brother-in-law” can in no way compete with Stepan Safaryan, and if the latter becomes an MP, it will be quite useful for our country. No one saw the “Brother-in-law” anywhere during the election campaign, there is no ordinary voter with whom he communicated. Not to mention journalists. The Republican Party probably did it just for fun, just to arrange a virtual figure’s election using administrative leverage, voter registration lists and money. Naturally, I am not against that man personally, and perhaps, he really is a very modest and decent person, as his fellow party members claim, but our citizens no nothing about him, except for his being the “Brother-in-law.”
On the night of Sunday-Monday, fireworks were set off in Avan in honor of the “Brother-in-law’s” victory, also at 11:30 p.m., when fireworks are forbidden. What was the city hall doing?
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ARAM ABRAHAMYAN
