Azerbaijanologist Tatevik Hayrapetyan writes: “Pashinyan’s victory became possible thanks to Ilham Aliyev’s strategic vision,” Azai Guliyev, a deputy from Azerbaijan, said two days ago.

He noted that “the result of the elections should be considered first of all as a new success and victory of Ilham Aliyev’s political line and his strategic vision regarding the future of the South Caucasus…”.
He added:

“However, the Armenian society and the authorities are facing another important challenge: to amend the constitutional provisions containing territorial claims against Azerbaijan in order to remove the last remaining legal obstacles on the way to sustainable peace and the signing of a peace agreement.

The results of yesterday’s elections show that the Armenian society today is more ready than before to take steps in this direction and realizes that there is no alternative to it.”

What does this show? The Azerbaijani side is satisfied with the success of its candidate Pashinyan, because Pashinyan is their main tool against the Armenian state, and the tool should be used to the maximum. Therefore, in the near future, he will be forced to organize the referendum of Aliyev, the text of the constitution will be dictated from Baku. This is Aliyev’s political plan to humiliate the Armenian community as much as possible, which will never lead to the signing of the contract, instead it aims to finally break the Armenian community and simply nullify the sovereignty. This is exactly what Aliyev’s candidate will do in the near future. At the same time, I think this is entirely preventable, and it requires a broad public consolidation.”

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