Nothing and no one can restrain Pashinyan from his obsessive desire to reproduce his power in the June 7 elections. He himself recently admitted, “If I lose the upcoming elections, the people will tear me apart.” Naturally, he knows better than anyone how much harm he has caused over these eight years and what severe judgment he may face. Therefore, in order to secure re-election, he appears ready to resort to any means necessary, even bloodshed.
Pashinyan’s vocabulary has long crossed the boundaries of rhetoric befitting a statesman. It increasingly resembles the language of street retaliation, where a political opponent is viewed as a “target to be destroyed.” Judge for yourselves: “Where were the lackeys of the Kaluga oligarch and the others during the war? Have you imagined yourselves as ‘alpha males’? I’ll cut you down, man. What do you even talk about at home? Are you giving sex lessons? I’ll make you kneel…” Pashinyan shouted in Arabkir on May 18, warning opposition figures not to leave their homes because “they will come after them.” Otherwise, he declared, “these elections will turn into something else.”
The leader of the Civil Contract Party has also threatened the philanthropist and businessman Samvel Karapetyan, saying that “by the end of the year I’ll turn him into a homeless man.” He similarly targeted Gagik Tsarukyan: “I’ll bring you to your knees, Gagik Tsarukyan. Has your tongue grown too long? We’ll drag your son back from Belarus by the neck and lock him up—there’ll be no saving him.” Nor has he forgotten what he promised Robert Kocharyan, perhaps the most alarming statement of all, spoken in the name of the people: “On June 7, the people will bring you to your knees and take you to a penitentiary institution… or, if the people demand it, I will destroy you…” What kinds of statements are not uttered by this troubled man, consumed by fear, political insecurity, and the bitter sense of impending removal from office, having seemingly lost all self-control?
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