After the second President of Armenia Robert Kocharyan announced that he will be participating in the next parliamentary elections (and that he will win), the political landscape became clear to me more or less.
First, I will continue with my claim that the legitimacy of the results of parliamentary elections will be suspicious if the Prime Minister remains the same person. In general, when the working authorities hold snap elections, they have many ways in which they can rig the elections.
Regarding those who will participate in those suspicious elections, they will most likely be divided into three groups:
1.My Step
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Or, to put it conditionally, Pashinyan’s alliances. They will consist of a group of political parties of which one portion might consider themselves to be the opposition, but they never stated after November 10th that the Prime Minister failed in every way, and that he is the one to blame for the loss of territories and thousands of casualties. Those political parties might criticize the Prime Minister regarding smaller issues, but they are actually supporters of Pashinyan, especially since they mainly focus on criticizing the former regime. It’s not impossible for several of the parties from this group to create an alliance with My Step that would be called something else. This would create a large division in society. The rest will come forward from opposition positions by maintaining the imitation of democratic processes.
2. Robert Kocharyan, who will most likely be supported by the 17 political parties.
This image is sad, of course. The main reason why it’s sad is that neither the ruling party, pocket opposition, or real opposition are bringing forth any real ideologies that will bring our country out of this terrible situation. Or, to be clearer, that will be in a position to save our statehood.
The other sad part is that the two main candidates are alike in terms of their mental state and petty vindictiveness. In his last interview, Kocharyan said, “For My Step, I am an individual whom they kept in prison for two years and who, in their opinion, will take out a sword and take revenge against them left and right if I take power” (I am using his actual quote when I include “against them”). It’s almost as if that isn’t what he did when he came to power in 1998, and as if he didn’t create hysteria against the former regime. Therefore, no, I do not have any reason to believe that the main individual responsible for March 1st and the individual who concealed someone’s murder for greeting him in the wrong way is the embodiment of humanity and open-mindedness.
Of course, the majority of voters may use the following logic: “Let’s vote for Kocharyan to be done with Pashinyan,” or “Let’s vote for Nikol so that the former regime doesn’t come back.” But I am against such a “flawed” decision.
Aram Abrahamyan
