I cannot tell how these elections will end, but I can tell one thing certainly: in the following five years, a number of political opposition forces will struggle for cancelling the results of the elections and for holding early elections. That is to say, their “working front” for the upcoming five years is ensured.
I really doubt that this time, the “post-election processes” can hardly last for more than two or three weeks. After this, representatives of the forces that will not be content with the election results, but that have successfully crossed the threshold of 5 or 7 percent, will take their mandates and transfer the struggle to Parliament. And those who will fail to cross that threshold will of course be more active and demand new elections.
So, what the political forces will do in the upcoming five years is more or less clear: no sensational events can be expected. I wonder more about what we, the active and not indifferent citizens should do. I would recommend to concentrate on education and change our soviet education system starting from kindergartens. This, in my opinion, is a strategic direction as much as the army. What has this campaign shown to us? That there are hundreds of young people living by the values of the civilized world of the 21st century. There are dozens of politicians that stayed in the mid-1990s by their way of thinking. And there are hundreds of thousands of inert, indifferent, unapproachable and resentful people that are not capable of anything else except for complaining and staring at the hands and pockets of the rich. “Ask Vladimir Vladimirovich to take care of the Armenian people”: this is the wish that briefly describes those people.
We should rely on the hundreds of young people that I mentioned earlier, because I am sure that they will not escape from Armenia, they will not leave it. And we should do our best to expand, to enlarge that “islet” as much as possible not only through educational institutions by pushing the soviet crawling out of there, but also through mass media and even internet. I say “even”, because in the internet sphere, the efforts of creating a certain culture meet the resistance of inadequate people, chronic “aggrieved” and “fake” accounts. But we should not give up here as well, we should not give in the information noise.
The main message to be created through that educational, illuminating work shall be the following: we are the state, the whole state system is operated by our taxes, we do not need any kings, feudal lords, princes and village lords. We need an administration to hire for a certain period of time to resolve the tasks assigned by us. You should agree that those kinds of tasks can be assigned only by educated people with a certain outlook.
When a person asks “when will things finally get better?”, things will never get better for him or her.
