Verelq: The economy is the “Achilles heel” of Pashinyan’s team

“Araratcement” CJSC workers are on strike. they were informed a few days ago that the factory will be closed in two months and several hundred employees will be unemployed.

The new government of RA faces economic problems almost every day, which do not get a solution and force people to go to the streets. The downsizing of the state apparatus, various events surrounding business affect Nikol Pashinyan’s personal rating.

Many socio-economic problems that Pashinyan suffered from previous governments and accumulated over the past 20 years are now generating a large mass of people dissatisfied with the new government, the future electorate of those who will vote against Nikol Pashinyan.

Let’s not forget that in the conditions of the next elections, many extra-parliamentary forces will unite against Pashinyan Serzh Sargsyan and Robert Kocharyan will be from the teams, as well as many other newly created spoiler parties, whose goal will be to criticize Pashinyan and steal votes.

After 5 years, there will be no revolutionary euphoria and voters will vote for specific steps and real economic results, in the absence of which a part of the electorate will either emigrate or vote for some populist parties.

Pashinyan must promptly deal with the economy, which is the Achilles heel of his team. his personal rating is high, people believe in him, but not seeing economic results and improvement of social life, they can turn into a critical mass of people dissatisfied with the government in case of active work of both parliamentary and extra-parliamentary opposition against the background of disappointment, which in the case of RA is fraught with new demonstrations, marches and clashes.

What saves Pashinyan from the critical mass of protests is the fact that the majority of society does not want the return of the former authorities. It is the only restraining factor that the society does not partially go out on the streets, but the latent dissatisfaction is even more dangerous for a country like RA, because it will eventually lead to voting with feet, the part of the society that blocked the streets in the days of the Velvet Revolution, which does not take advantage of government positions, will simply emigrate due to deep disappointment with the new authorities.

The economic agenda in RA is as important as the agendas related to security and Karabakh.