If Paruyr Hayrikyan organizes a rally today, it would gather 200 people without spending a penny by the organizers, people who are concerned about the sovereignty of Armenia. If the “Heritage” party, today, organizes a separate rally, it would gather 1000-1500 entirely disinterested people, who want to live in a free and democratic country. If the ANC, today, organizes a rally, it would gather 3-4 thousand people, again by purely public basis, mostly people, who enjoy listening how the government authorities are “slated”. Finally, the PAP party’s separate rally would gather 2-3 tens of thousands of citizens, who work in PAP business enterprises, sports facilities or just are not indifferent to money.
Thus, if the problem is to bring the mass to the Freedom Square, then PAP is able to do it on its own, without the support of other parliamentary trio parties. PAP is not in shortage of young and talented orators, who will “take away the pain of people” from the platforms so that Arshak Sadoyan himself will be jealous. What is, then, the meaning of giving a share from your resources to “poor relatives”, so that the latter would be able to get on the platform and utter orations before the huge masses? Or, if we make another comparison, in many countries, the economically developed region provides subsidies to depressed regions to ensure stability in the country.
All of that will be meaningful only if the parliamentary trio parties come up with a Joint Declaration of becoming an alliance and fighting for extraordinary presidential and parliamentary elections. But it is not enough. It is not enough to exclaim, “in a country where there is 40% poverty, where in the last 6 years 250 thousand people have left…” and so on. The abovementioned alleged Declaration should define what the alliance of three parties is planning to do to make the poverty, let’s say, 39 percent, and in the next 6 years, for example, 240 thousand people migrate. Wouldn’t they steal when coming to power? Why shouldn’t they steal? Because they are decent ones?
I can remind the answers to these questions, which was given by the opposition members in the last two decades. “The guarantee that all of this would not happen again are we, the multi-thousand proud people standing in this square.” Theoretically, this is a correct answer. The only thing is to figure out of which people: the disinterested 1000 or interested 10,000. “Impassioned” or the “swamp”?
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However, given the experience of our “fellows of the same fate”, I would also like to remind you that even the most active and dedicated people do not stand on Maidan or Rustaveli Avenue for years. Sooner or later, they go home. The power remains with people like Ivanishvili or Poroshenko. And as to what extent they are better of their predecessors, it is hard to say.
ARAM ABRAHAMYAN
