The problem of the opposition forces participating in the upcoming parliamentary elections is neither ideological nor programmatic. The oppositions have a chance to succeed only if they can justify and convince people during the same simple and non-camera communication with people, that what will be held on June 7 is not an election, but a dilemma in the most direct, thickest sense of that concept.

That day is not a day of diversity and plurality decision, as elections are in normal countries, but an either-or, on one side of which is the possibility of the CP government and the non-existence of Armenia, at least a substantive state, and on the other, the non-guaranteed, nevertheless, possibility of preserving at least something from what is.

To convince people of this, neither conservative nor progressive, nor liberal or socialist ideologies are needed, just as there is no need for pay-as-you-go programs written on a paid basis with hollow promises predicting creaky indicators.

The June 7 event, which is commonly called a national election, is actually an anti-state event by the rules of today’s game. Because choice, in its classical sense, will lead to an image that will not result in a state.

The oppositions, not changing this conceptual approach to what is happening and what needs to be done, and getting stuck in the race of pre-election noises, contribute to the reproduction of power by contributing more than the executioners of the Communist Party, taken together.

The ideologies, programs, debates about them, which have turned into cannibalism among the opposition, with the most spectacular and equally disgusting scenes of eating each other’s flesh, are a dead end in which everyone will remain. From meat eaters to bystanders and society. Only CP will come out of it and come out victorious. Victory to his own society.

This is not to say that ideologies and programs are not important. It’s just that they can make sense only if society treats what it is doing on June 7 unconditionally as a commitment to choose not life in the dilemma of life and death, but the infinitesimal possibility of life.

Otherwise, to pension the increase by such a percentage, salary increase by another percentage and other measurable, arithmetical promises of June 7 will only embolden the CP to power, making it unimportant which of the opposition’s programs was more resonant and which was more promising.

In the case of the continuation of the CP’s rule, all these programs will at most turn into sticks in the fire of the fire that is burning Armenia.

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