The political phase (cycle) completed, the political season of this year ends too, and it is likely that any major event will not take place until September. It’s the time to summarize the results, and now let’s try to just list the main political players. There is no need to speak more about the party in power, for more than 20 years, the group of corrupted officials is ruling in Armenia, which regularly changes its name.
Of all subjects of the opposition party let us first of all mention the ANC as a team of supporters who implicitly accepts Levon Ter-Petrosyan’s authority and considers all his words absolutely true both now and in the past. In addition to being a unified team, the ANC also has the advantage that it is cooperating with the PAP and uses the its material and information resources. There are also figures in the same opposition that have left ANC for various reasons who as individuals are often more interesting than the ANC party, but in all cases they are manifested as individuals, so far there is no platform on which they can be united. It’s hard to imagine that, for example, Grant Bagratyan, Nichol Pashinyan and David Shahnazaryan can again appear in one political structure. Each will prefer its to be the first in everything from being the last from anything. In addition to that, although the ANC officially announces that the government is its only target, however, the campaigning resources of this party (and PAP) do not spare efforts and energy to ‘spoil’ the former ANC members. Despite everything, acting in a united, though, not so bright team in the politics is more preferable and prospective than as an individual, even making a speech with adroitness and brilliant tricks.
The ANC (Dashnak), due to its developed ideology of more than a century, has and, I hope, will always have its special place in our political life and in the consciousness of our society. However, by the power of inertia or due to inadequate efforts of Dashnak, the agenda of given Party is perceived as a pure national liberation struggle, and is not connected with the challenges of contemporary Armenia. To abandon the values of the Party’s “brand” would be stupid. Adding the new “brands” to them is very difficult.
This political cycle was a starry hour for the “Heritage” Party. I do not think that in the near future the “favorable parade of planets” will be repeated for this party. Did the “Heritage” “squeeze” the maximum from given situation? Probably not. But Raffi Hovannisian’s non-standard behavior as an opposition might be a milestone for the next oppositions, and they rejecting the party’s mistakes will use a state, restrained and respectful towards the opponent “tonality”, which was heard by the “Heritage” party.
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In all cases, the new political phase requires new approaches.
ARAM ABRAHAMYAN
