Recently, a woman very upset asked me if it was really pointless to go to the elections, because it was not possible to remove the existing “Demolish the State” party. I answered that by going to the election, they prevented Aliyev’s toy political force from gaining a constitutional majority in the parliament and from holding the Aliyev referendum. The lady was very happy that her vote could be useful in preventing or at least significantly complicating the Azerbaijani plans towards our country.

It is very important that the political forces can have a simple and honest conversation with the citizens who voted. It is important to explain to the citizen in the simplest possible, clear and understandable language that his vote is really valuable, maybe at the moment it is not possible to remove the ruling power, but without the active political participation of citizens, no issue can be solved in this country.

The last elections proved that the RA citizen can change anything. Another thing is that the political forces that have assumed responsibility should be able to capitalize on that vote, not disappoint the citizens who voted for them, be able to show the significance and importance of all that, so that the citizen is motivated to participate in the political changes of his country and understand that the only real change maker is himself.

Azerbaijanologist Tatev Hayrapetyan

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