Typically, the internal political movements in our country are evolved and aggravated especially in spring and autumn, and it is quite normal because autumn and spring are especially favorable for rallies, sit-ins and other opposition events in terms of the weather, and it is not accidental that the phrase of “hot autumn” has become one of the commonly used political phrases among us.
Although summer is the hottest season in terms of the temperature, however, the phrase of “hot summer” is not applicable in our political and internal political vocabulary because hot political and internal political events is our country are mainly expected in autumn. Nevertheless, the opposite has happened in our country over the past two years. In other words, internal political hot events happened not in the fall or in spring, but in summer. For a couple of reasons.
The reason and the cause of the precedent summer movement were the intention of the municipality regarding the transport price hike. The youth stood up and the municipality stepped back from its criminal intent.
The next summer movement was organized by almost the same youth in this summer related to the electricity tariff. This time, the struggle of the young civilians ended up with a specific result. However, it is thanks to this hot summer struggle that we so far pay the former price for our electricity bills. It is possible that the government authorities initiated the attempts of the two price hikes in hot summer, perhaps assuming that the opposition will not stand up in the heat of summer. If it is so, they assumed it rightly. In both cases, the young civilians replaced the missing opposition. Moreover, it was a quite successful replacement.
And why was the opposition absent? There are several reasons for it, again, in our opinion.
The first reason is that the main representatives of our fundamental opposition when becoming an MP and moved to the Parliament already prefer the parliamentary fighting to the street and public fight. Apparently, the other reason is associated with our main opponents becoming an MP. The oppositionist is also a man and becoming an MP gradually gets used to the comfortable life and the life comfort. And getting used to the comfortable life and the life comfort and obtaining the chance to a complete summer relaxation, they also use this opportunity. No matter how much we deny and reject Marx, we have to admit that life determines the consciousness. In other words, the more you live a better life, the less you complain about life, reality and the government, and the less you complain about life, reality and the government, the more you kept yourself away from the street fight.
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Our parliamentary oppositionists, preferring the parliamentary struggle, in fact, completely ceded the extra-parliamentary platform to others, and they do it especially and particularly in the summer months when no parliament and parliamentary struggle exists.
Mainly the young civilians dispose to the extra-parliamentary opposition platform, sometimes also Davit Sanasaryan and Shant Harutyunyan’s son, separately, as well as the Founding Parliament, as well as various blocks of yekrapahs.
As you can see, we have a lot of oppositionists, and the young civilians’ summer movement in terms of the electricity price produced quite a positive result.
However, it would be self-deception not to mention that Armenia’s opposition has never been so weak. Many believe that the current weakness and non-existence of the opposition is the result of the RA President’s shrewd policy. We would also think so if we have assumed that the absence of the opposition contributes to the development and advancement of the Republic. However, we think the opposite. We think that the strong opposition contributes to the country’s development and advancement, which with its demanding posture pushes the government authorities to patriotic activities and which always suggests the best options to the government authorities and even imposing. Such an opposition was the PANM and the “Karabakh” Committee in the late eighties and early nineties of the last century. The “Karabakh” Committee as an opposition was so strong and powerful that it had its opposition too. It was Hayrikyan and the Soviet political prisoners that were also a serious opposition. The “Karabakh” Committee was an opposition to the Soviet authorities regarding the Nagorno-Karabakh matters while the independent Hayrikyan-followers – regarding the independence matters. Thus, opposing each other and demanding from each other, there were moving forward together. As a result, the achievements on Karabakh and independence were obvious.
The Karabakh movement was the peak of the Armenian opposition, and it is not accidental that many of the young activists blocking Baghramyan Avenue this summer were proudly comparing their movement to the Karabakh movement.
The young people did what they were capable of. They are younger than the leaders of the Karabakh movement. They are young, but they realized the main thing that the country that has chosen the path of democracy cannot exist without an opposition.
Voskan YEREVANTSY
