Doctor of political science, professor, energy security expert Vahe Davtyan writes. “Political forces continue to practice law instead of politics.

They continue to measure reality by legal norms, persistently ignoring political principles and laws.

This is the reason why the opinion that the political struggle is practically absent in Armenia is hardening among the public.

Perhaps it was also absent during the pre-election phase, when the opposition was trying to compete with the political predator with white gloves.

There was competition. There was no struggle.

And so all the announcements about elections of existential, civilizational significance were nonsense. At the conversational level, I set a frame that you didn’t fit.

Today, at this moment, the streets and squares of Yerevan and other cities should have been flooded with people. A wave of widespread defiance should have been raised. I assure you, it wouldn’t hurt your law practice. On the contrary, it would strengthen your own position at the institutional level.

But you prefer not to take off your white gloves.

Regardless of the results of the recalculation, regardless of possible rearrangements, nothing will change in the relative sense. Because you will continue to practice law, and the political predator will continue to practice his direct business, politics.”

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