ArmInfo. Armenia and Armenians can only be congratulated with, because the change of power in the country is a kind of unprecedented. Especially in the post-Soviet space. The director of the Caucasus Institute, Alexander Iskandaryan, expressed this opinion to ArmInfo.
As a result of mass peaceful protests in Armenia, Prime Minister Serzh Sargsyan resigned. On April 25, the talks broke off. Prime Minister Karen Karapetyan and leader of the protesters Nikol Pashinyan. The authorities call the demands of the opposition too high, and the protest leaders state that the revolution has not been completed as long as the RPA remains in power. Peaceful protests have been going on for two weeks now.
"I do not think that today the leader of the opposition Nikol Pashinyan has such a strong support of the majority of the society, he simply managed to organize and personalize the society's protest attitude towards the authorities against Serzh Sargsyan, Pashinyan did not even lead, but replaced all the opposition, and the rest the opposition parties as a result practically disintegrated, Mr. Pashinyan skillfully used the protest against Sargsyan as the engine of the whole movement, but to speak today about the unequivocal support of the general Pashinyan's life would be wrong, "the political scientist said.
At the same time, as the most likely candidates for the premieres, Iskandaryan named Nikol Pashinyan and Karen Karapetyan. According to his forecasts, what all this will ultimately lead to today is premature, since at the present time new political breakdowns are not yet formed. Noting that according to the Constitution, parliamentary elections occur 45 days after the resignation of the head of government, the political scientist described this as a very short period. Especially in the absence of serious opposition parties who can participate in these elections. "The same opposition bloc" Elk "is practically destroyed, and does not exist in a unified form.Therefore, new people and old technocrats will participate in the early elections, which will have to be admitted to the elections simply because the oppositionists can not find the number of future officials" , - he stressed.
According to Iskandaryan, there is no serious political party as the structured institutional support of Nikol Pashinyan. Accordingly, people who fall into power from his entourage will be attracted to a large extent on a random basis. Thus, according to the forecasts of the political scientist, their professional competence can be quite low.
At the same time, Iskandaryan did not rule out the split of the Armenian society at the inter-elite level over time due to the substantial personification of popular protests.