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Political scientist: With peace "velvet revolution" Armenia and  Armenians can only congratulate

Political scientist: With peace "velvet revolution" Armenia and  Armenians can only congratulate

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.

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