If Nikol Pashinyan had defended Armenia’s state interest as zealously as he defends his own government today, the state would be in a completely different state than it is today.

The conclusion that he loves and values ​​his own government more than the state is true, but it does not fully express the internal logic of what is happening. And the cause and effect of what is happening today is that Nikol Pashinyan manages to maintain power by fundamentally manipulating the meaning of concepts that are vital for the state and society.

In particular, he has completely changed the places of internal and external enemies and putting the state under the feet of external enemies, he protects his own government with his teeth from the political opponents he has declared an enemy.

“I will kill”, “I will disgust”… and other such hysterical outbursts, with which he threatens his political opponents, are actually the complexes pushed out of his subconscious, which arose from the humiliations inflicted on him by external enemies who are no longer “guarantors of peace”. In other words, by being “killed”, “dismissed” by Azerbaijan, but retaining power in return, he sublimates his own humiliation.

But from the state’s point of view, the problem is neither aesthetics nor Pashinyan’s psychological state. More importantly, this reality expresses the crippled state of Armenia’s political system, electoral process and, as a consequence, statehood.

The change of places of internal and external enemies proves that the real external enemy is fighting alongside Pashinyan’s government and for him against the non-governmental parties participating in the Armenian elections. He is fighting not for Pashinyan’s innocent eyes, but for his own interests, and his own interests imply preserving his power at all costs.

Armenia has directly handed over the government, which rips the throat out of every pickup about sovereignty and independence, to foreign administration and wants to reaffirm its status as a satrap on June 7.

This fundamentally changes the meaning and significance of the election, and there are exactly two weeks left to explain it to the public. The June 7 election is not about ideas, not about programs, not about personalities.

On that day, the citizens of Armenia will have to answer a simple question: do they agree that Armenia should be led by people with Armenian names promoting the interests of Azerbaijan, or do they still want to give an opportunity to save something from the statehood of Armenia? This is as obvious a dilemma as it would be if the ballot paper number 16 in the elections had written “Azerbaijan Yes” instead of KP.  

Harutyun Avetisyan

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