In the pre-election period, there is everything and a lot, except honesty and truth. With increasing pathos, honesty fades, truth becomes obscenely absent.

Everyone wins in the race of dishonesty and untruth, from the government to the opposition. The loser, as always, is the society, and the account of the defeat, as always, is closed at the expense of the state, already at the expense of the crumbs left from the state.

The death of honesty towards people these days takes place in the interval between the confidence of the authorities to win a crushing victory and the opposition’s promises to give the government an equally crushing defeat.

The impossibility of simultaneous fulfillment of both promises forces ordinary people to be honest at least about their disgust with politics, which, while honest, is an irresponsible and anti-civic position. In the sense of leaving the state to the ravages of those who settled accounts with honesty.

And the problem isn’t just the perverse dose of dishonesty with ordinary people that pours from the lips of politicians and other technological outlets. Most of those people are self-deluded and believe that the lyricism of their speeches and the rabbi’s attempt to appear national will lead the government to self-defeat.

That is, many are dishonest not out of spite, but out of public dishonesty sublimated from being dishonest with oneself. But that is no excuse, because insanity cannot be sold as a mitigating circumstance in politics. Although also sold due to dishonesty of policy buyers.

But whatever the motivation, dishonest politics with promises to save the country is not a particularly manly occupation. And there is only one chance to stop the already unstoppable course of dishonesty, which all oppositions, individually and collectively, can turn to.

Many parties are participating in the elections, but the main contenders, excluding the CP, are three or four. Everyone declares that they are participating in the elections to remove the CP from power, adding in parallel, quite rightly, that otherwise Armenia is doomed to guaranteed destruction.

No nominal problem with integrity so far. But it can be honest with honesty only if all the members of the lists of all the opposition forces, without exception, publicly sign a statement that if KP and Nikol Pashinyan are not removed from power after the elections, all of them, without exception, will not take the parliamentary mandates, but the necessary supplies to stay on the street until the unconditional change of power, which will fit in a conditional backpack.

Only then, instead of leaving the state to the oppressors of the truth every day, the society can go after those who will demonstrate in practice that their goal is not the mandate, but to deprive the CP of its mandate.

Otherwise, people will pack not their backpacks, but their emigration suitcases to leave for places where there is no more honesty, but at least the cheaters are not their own relatives. And at the expense of saving the cheated, they don’t try to fit into the folds of the government, against which they organize performances to fight, especially before the elections.

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