The representatives of the ruling political majority think that what they are doing is politics
Azerbaijan, which regularly announces that the road connecting Artsakh to Armenia is open, openly forbids the entry of Artsakh residents to their place of residence.
The public, the press, and experts speak out about the insolences of the Aliyev’s regime, pointing out its behavior of not fulfilling the international community’s calls and the decision of the International Court of Justice. Taking advantage of impunity, even openly disrespecting the presence of the Russian peacekeeping mission in Artsakh, Aliyev’s government will soon neither cooperate with the Russian peacekeepers nor with the representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross. The authorities of Armenia have left everything on the shoulders of the Russians, who are busy recording the facts, accompanying the people of Artsakh, and solving humanitarian problems.
In this situation, what is the discourse in the Armenian political field? The political majority in the Armenian Parliament is tasked to “hold the boss” and the government. Or, if they are not assigned to do so, the official deputies with self-forgetting obsessions prove by their behavior that they have nothing to do with politics; they do not know what the state is or what the highest legislative body of the state is. And for the umpteenth time, it turns out that the ruling parliamentarians do not even know basic ethical rules; they lack education.
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The question of how effective is the opposition’s activity is unnecessary here. The ruling party, as the number one responsible for the situation in the country, does not know that it is obliged to listen to the other party, to respond to the criticism directed at it with facts, and not with “boyish” whining, cursing, and kicking.
The current government has a special knack for making everyone hate themselves even more. The representatives of the ruling political force either declared war on the press, collecting “dossiers” on journalists, because the latter dared to ask the persons fed by the “people’s” taxes by what means they acquired property. Then in the Parliament, they fight “to the death” to show their “boss” how they kept the “honor” of the government and how they “dishonored” another opposition figure. It comes to the point that the parliament speaker personally shows how to “punish” a person who has made a statement against him and spits in his face.
The representatives of the government, who are making calls to save Armenia’s “democracy” from various international platforms, have no basic idea of what freedom of speech is and what are fundamental human liberties.
And in the end, this government gave the opponents any qualifications and continues to make such assessments. But the government’s job is not to give qualifications but to prove the “accusations” in the legal field. If this has not been done, all government accusations are empty.
The current government consistently destroys the pillars of the state, and the representatives of the ruling political majority think that what they are doing is politics: in vain. Political life in Armenia is dead; there is no political field, and we are close to losing statehood. Moreover, Armenia has no personality to look for ways out of the situation, offer solutions, and unite the society.
Representatives of the opposition sometimes declare that the people do not fight; therefore, the government does whatever it wants. The highest authority and its close ones are busy with all their strength and dubious consistency in defaming their people and exposing their vices. Recently, it was announced that “we had 11 thousand defectors”. And all this is being said systematically, as if both the government and the opposition indirectly make it clear to the countries conducting hostile actions against Armenia that our society is not a fighter; these people do not pose a threat; whatever you plan, implement it.
The so-called “political” forces do not even realize this elementary subtlety. And in this situation, do we wonder why a hostile country roams freely in the sovereign territory of our state?
The authorities also have a unique talent for diverting public attention from essential topics for our country. Hey, they can show “mastery” lessons in this matter. After a while, the government manages to turn any critical event into tertiary-quaternary significance, or even forget it completely, with one post on the Internet or the publication of several photos. And every time the oppositionists fall into that “trap,” they start discussing, arguing, cursing for days, forgetting many more essential problems, which not only do not get a solution in our country but also get more profound.
EMMA GABRIELYIAN
“Aravot” daily, 06.04.2023
