Nikol has clearly chosen the logic of his campaign. Every day, a new ugliness. This is not a question of good or bad. This is a conscious decision, a fact.
Oppositional systems should be flexible and adequate to that decision. Otherwise, the upcoming important months will turn into a “race”.
It is not enough to monotonously present one’s program provisions. They will be drowned in the ugliness of the government, which will happen every day, and every day, with the tendency to get uglier.
Responding to ugliness is rare, but it cannot be a primary tactic.
In the current situation, the joint tactics of the political opposition and healthy public layers should become the new public project. Life after June 7. This is both a tactic and psychology. This is a unique basis for joint action. The opposing systems must communicate with each other and, most importantly, with the public, and build their relations in this logic. What are we going to do, how are we going to work with each other, how are we going to move forward, what are we agreeing on, what are we rejecting, how are we going to get out step by step from the legacy of the disasters left by them, etc.
Our programs should be presented to the society with this tactic.
This will allow to change the public atmosphere, to create a big cloud of changes, which will hang in our sky and on June 7 will be resolved technically.
The upcoming elections are exclusively internal Armenian elections, where we will decide our internal life for the coming years. ugliness or intelligence?
It should be widely explained that life after June 7 will first of all solve the simplest and most important problem: to return reason to the government, to the state system.
As for the private narrative of ugliness, the episode of snarling, then one should have courage and admit that for 5-6 years, the world and especially our neighboring countries have put us in a snarky place and are watching as an experiment how much a nation can endure all this. We need to talk about this openly with each other and with our own people, so that these shameful situations starting from June 7th begin to be finally forgotten.
Vahe Hovhannisyan
Alternative projects group
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