168: Change the default selection rule. time works in favor of power

With the hasty amendment made by the National Assembly in the “Electoral Code”, the parties were forbidden to use names and personal names when participating in the elections. It is clear that this was done to prevent the registration of the electoral bloc named after Samvel Karapetyan. As always, the political field mostly reacted with more sharp humor, sarcasm, imaginings of new bans by Nikol Pashinyan…

But what happened should not be a joke, but a cause for deep concern for most humorists. This legislative change, testifying to the total lack of democracy in Armenia, means that Nikol Pashinyan does not care about any legal, democratic structure and will deal with the results of the elections in the same way as he dealt with the “Electoral Code” two days ago, to suit his political interest. The formation of the next government in Armenia will not be influenced by sociological polls, nor by the activity of people at the polling station, nor by the abundance of votes received by the opposition and by the CP.

The outcome of the elections will be determined by one factor: the degree of manageability of the vertical system of power by Nikol Pashinyan. Even up to today, that indicator is close to one hundred percent.

Moreover, the loyalty of the government and state systems is built on the principle “without Nikol, everyone’s destruction”. The effectiveness of the latter, that is, Pashinyan’s ability to manage the system, increases with the hardening of the opposition’s rhetoric. the more the opposition makes verbal threats, the more the instinct of the state administration system and law enforcement officers to devote themselves more selflessly to the reproduction of the government operating for self-preservation.

Nikol Pashinyan needs the total manageability of the vertical state system not only and perhaps not so much to satisfy his own despotism, but to ensure the reproduction of power. And while the opposition presents the amendment of the “Electoral Code” as a manifestation of Pashinyan’s fears (it’s not that Pashinyan is not afraid), he shows with this next step that he controls the political and state systems, all decision-making institutions to such an extent that after the elections, regardless of the results of the elections, he can even pass a new law through the still functioning National Assembly, by which he will declare himself Armenia forever. manager.

The West, within the framework of the fight against “hybrid war”, will applaud this, declaring that Armenia has turned from a bastion of democracy into a newly discovered continent of democracy. And Russia will “respect the election of the friendly Armenian people” with the calculation of calling the newly elected Pashinyan to Moscow once again at a convenient moment and establishing itself on him.

The opposition has very little time and less opportunity to change this status quo, which is getting stronger every day. It should lead to a change in the atmosphere of conducting the elections according to Pashinyan’s game rules and imposing a new rule. At this point, and with today’s toolkit from the opposition, that seems ridiculously impossible.

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