Are snap parliamentary elections necessary or not? If they are, under whose administration will they be carried out and according to what rules? Will the political crisis truly subside as a result of the elections, or will it get worse?
Those are all topics of debate, and the political forces have opposing views based on their own interests. Regular citizens also have different answers to these questions.
I do not have a final answer regarding if the elections are necessary or not. It is possible to bring arguments for and against them. I only know one thing for sure about what our society needs: we need to overcome hatred.
When I read comments full of hate on Facebook where on one side, people are saying “traitors” and “capitulators,” and on the other side, people are saying “thieves,” I am used to it. But that Facebook reality also created an impression on real life. People not only express hatred towards their “anti-heroes,” but they also spill those negative emotions on those close to them. Friends, relatives, and even close family members become enemies based on that, building an insurmountable wall of barbed wire from natural differences.
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I not only see this issue among Pashinyan’s supporters, whose representatives can only speak about how “the government stole from this country for 30 years.” Perhaps I am more concerned about the fact that instead of showing tolerance and compassion, educated and well-rounded people have also fallen into the trap of their emotions and they speak with extreme hatred against the Prime Minister or his opponents.
Of course, Nikol Pashinyan is mostly to blame here because he not only carried out a revolution by generating hatred against the “former regime” and using that as a foundation for coming to power (that was unavoidable, more or less), but he also did not have any positive plans or display statesman thinking, and instead continued the “line of hatred,” further building hatred among the aforementioned electorate and deepening the division of society.
And now, during the pre-election campaigns, he will most likely use his rhetorical expertise to develop the topic of “the immoral people we rejected.” Accompanied by the joyful cries of his electorate.
But I must reiterate that it is wrong to fight hate with hate. It is ineffective. One can only fight hate with love. Therefore, dear citizens, be “pro-Nikol,” “pro-Serzh,” “pro-Robert,” or even “pro-Grigor Malyan.” That is not at all a basis for hating someone.
Aram Abrahamyan
