It is an Orwellian reality. foreign intervention for the sake of “anti-interference”.

At the request of RA: The EU will send a rapid response team Armenia to protect democracy during elections. the information that became known earlier was confirmed yesterday by the high representative of the EU, Kaya Kalas.

“We will not leave Armenia alone in the fight against foreign interference. Democracies under pressure can count on Europe,” the diplomat quoted his leader as saying. department.

Back in December, Kalas announced that the European Union would help Armenia in the fight against “hybrid threats” and third-party interference attempts in the 2026 parliamentary elections. He claimed that the EU plans to allocate 15 million euros for this.

168․amtalked about the topic political scientist Hrant Mikayelyan with, specifically wondering if this “support” to fight against “interventions” is not actually an intervention, and is this not also a prologue to the perspective that the elections will proceed according to the consensus scenario of the authorities and the West?

In response, Hrant Mikayelyan mentioned: “This is definitely an interference and of course they are interfering and they should say that it is against interference. it is an Orwellian reality in which we live, where, say, war is peace, and where foreign intervention is against foreign intervention, and not foreign intervention.

But the fact is that Brussels is already heavily involved in the internal politics of Armenia, and this is just another step. In addition, in a month and a half, the Brussels union will gather in Armenia at the 8th summit of the European Political Community, and, probably, after that, the RA-EU summit. And this, other than calling it an election campaign for Pashinyan, is not possible.”

The political scientist reminded that this is not the first episode when Brussels supports the current government and the so-called democracy, and, according to him, it is in this context that it is outlined that all repressions that take place in Armenia are, by and large, under the permission of Brussels.

As an example, the specialist reminded the situation of Moldova and Ukraine.

To the question: There are precedents that Brussels was able to play a role with its influence, and are there precedents indicating the opposite, when it was possible, for example, to overcome the “Brussels influence”, Hrant Mikayelyan answered:

“It is the experience of Georgia. Brussels tried (Brussels, of course, was not alone, together with London and Washington) to carry out a street coup. A new government came in America, they even confirmed that USAID, which was financed by US state funds, had participated in that anti-government activity.

But, in any case, the government in Georgia resisted such pressures with power levers. this is one thing, however, as for the opposition, it is a little more difficult to say here;

The EU has now become an internal political player in Armenia and exerts a great influence on the internal political process of Armenia, but we have seen several polls, according to which the opposition should win, therefore, there are opportunities for the opposition to win.”

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