The government in Armenia is constantly reproduced due to various reasons. I will list a few of them: 1/ not realizing how it is possible to live without the state leverages, the government officials, since 1995, do not practice discrimination in the means of being reproduced, 2/ when the political forces participated in the reproduction at different terms currently are acting against it, it is not perceived by the conscious people, 3/ most of Armenia’s population, to put it mildly, is indifferent to legality, including the legality to the elections, 4/ superpowers need elections causing suspicions so that they can manipulate the government authorities more easily. And so on. We can keep listing.
There is one feature that is also repeated for more than 20 years. Constantly demanding extraordinary elections, the opposition is unable to be prepared for the next elections properly. Perhaps, the opposition would not like what I say, but it’s a harsh truth. The mechanism is simple: resources, forces, time and words are spent “in-between” the elections, hot falls and hot springs are promised; as a result the next elections are coming, and the government still with popular methods achieves success. This cycle, in fact, ends up with a new wave of migration.
There has never been an opposition in Armenia, which has said, “We’re going to have another elections.” Our oppositions have always said, “Soon, we are going to do a change of regime.” This time too, I’m afraid, the oppositions are close at standing on the same rake. The year of 2014 is almost over, the next parliamentary elections will be held in February 2017, the time is actually not much.
If the opposition’s intentions are serious, they should act. The idea for the establishment of HQs is absolutely correct in the sense of the next parliamentary elections. Why is it important to do it today? Because the Republican Party has long ago established its “HQs”. These are all schools, all kindergartens, universities, public clinics, all Governors’ administration offices, the vast majority of the villages and urban municipalities, electric network and gas offices, departments of tax offices and law enforcement agencies, and so on and so forth. The government authorities diligently deny that there is such a thing, but this obvious unlawfulness is also a harsh reality.
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The only way for the opposition, keeping the peaceful pressure on in the street, is to negotiate with the government, getting as many advantages as possible ahead to the next elections. Recently, I read an article, allegedly such negotiations have already begun. Although the author of the article talks about it in negative emotions, I think, if there is such a process, then it can only be welcomed. Politics is not the art of the possible, but also a range of transactions. This is also a harsh truth.
ARAM ABRAHAMYAN
