Monday, June 20 2022 16:27

ArmInfo.The emergence of the so-called third force in the political arena of Armenia is something from the fiction genre. And I have both foreign policy and domestic  political reasons for such a disappointing forecast Conservative  Party Chairman Mikayel Hayrapetyan expressed a similar opinion to  ArmInfo.

"Against the background of the impossibility to choose between the  current ruling party and various shades of the "former  authorities"for a certain part of the Armenian society, the only  alternative, in theory, to these forces is a third force. Which,  again in theory, should be radically different from the existing two  political poles, for example, the presence of an ideology and a  different foreign policy orientation. Hence, there is a quite  tangible demand from society for a third force," he noted.

Among the foreign policy factors that negatively affect the prospects  for the formation of a full-fledged political field in Armenia, the  politician singled out the position of the Russian Federation. In his  opinion, at present Moscow is not so weakened in the South Caucasus  because of Ukraine, which makes it possible to have such hopes.  Excluding such a scenario, Hayrapetyan noted that the sudden  emergence of a third force in Armenia, no doubt, will be coordinated  by Moscow, as in the case of its emergence in the spring of 2018.

Among the internal reasons preventing the emergence of a political  alternative to the current and former ones, the politician singled  out the current way of thinking of the vast majority of the Armenian  society.  According to which, the most important thing in this life  is the daily bread, and there is nothing more important in the world  and in life.

"The fact that there are more important values than bread is clear.  It is not clear who should convey this to the masses? We may have  other values, but we cannot convey this to our society. I am talking  about myself now. The problem is that in as a result of voluntary or  involuntary coordination of external and internal factors, the path  towards a change of values, respectively, everything else is closed  for us. Just look who is sitting in our government and parliament as  of today," Hayrapetyan summed up.