As I mentioned after the election, the opposition forces have a huge amount of work to do, and the epitaphic and emotional noise regarding this work will only be distracting and disruptive. And there will be a lot of noisy people, and although there will also be those who raise their voices with a completely sincere motive, it will be mainly an organized noise in order to “reset” everything in the opposition field in the post-election environment and “start from scratch”.

“Starting from scratch” clearly turns it into a collective technology used against Armenia. The so-called philosophy of “starting from scratch” destroys the perspectives of public thought, in general, makes thought redundant. Because in order to “start from zero” the key, the primary thing is to destroy what existed before, to reset it to zero.

And it was this “philosophy” that simply unforgivably squandered the public positive energy and anticipation accumulated in 2018, did not allow it to be filtered out and remain just that, but that positive energy and expectation itself was filtered out and left, leaving only the deepening mutual bile and intolerance. It was the ‘conceptual’ effect of ‘starting from scratch’.

Analyst Hakob Badalyan

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