168: Help. Pashinyan is losing power

Disgust. This is the only feeling that any RA citizen, regardless of political preferences, can have after listening to Nikol Pashinyan’s speech in the European Parliament yesterday.

In that speech, he condensed all his admiration and gratitude towards Azerbaijan, its president, while at the same time combining it with hatred towards everything Armenian.

From the podium of the European Parliament, Nikol Pashinyan voiced the dirtiest narratives of his intra-Armenian propaganda, about the Armenian Apostolic Church, high-ranking clergymen, and all those fighting against his anti-national policy.

Perhaps only due to the lack of confidence in the translation, he did not use the expressions “to dump”, “plaster on the walls”, “to throw something else”, in a substantive sense repeating the same bile with which he has been poisoning the Armenian society for the last two years.

At the same time, from the high European podium, he stated several times in different wordings that Armenia owes its existence today to… Azerbaijan.

The entire causality of Pashinyan’s speech was built on the fetishization of false “peace”, so that if the border delimitation process with Azerbaijan had not started two years ago, Armenia would not exist today and would instead be some territory under foreign rule. The Europeans, of course, applauded Pashinyan, not publicly showing their perception that, having saved Armenia from imaginary “foreign rule”, Pashinyan is no longer secretly handing it over to Azerbaijani-Turkish rule.

The assessment that Nikol Pashinyan has not been able to get rid of the mold of an eccentric oppositionist, even after being in power for 8 years, was once again confirmed yesterday in the hall of the European Parliament with all its misery.

In general, protesting against the political actors of one’s own country, requesting and begging for external support has been characteristic of the oppositions of different times, which, acting in European forums, have tried, often justly, to overcome the seemingly unsolvable problems with domestic instruments. Pashinyan also broke that unwritten law by aligning himself with President Sandu of Moldova and other figures with a similar political pedigree who are ready to do anything for the sake of maintaining power. Everything without exception.

What happened in the hall of the European Parliament, with all its unpleasantness, testifies to a positive reality. According to everything, Pashinyan is seriously aware of the danger of losing power and, fearing its consequences, is begging for help from the Europeans. Pashinyan hinted to Aliyev that if he too supports him in maintaining the power, he can add the phrase “long live the Republic of Azerbaijan” to the list of chants at the end of his speech.

Harutyun Avetisyan

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