Politician: The foundation of the Armenian state is cracking beneath  a veil of silence

ArmInfo.Armenia currently faces a simultaneous crisis of legitimacy, the rule of law, and statehood. Only the consolidation of the opposition around a  unified national identity can lead the country out of this crisis,  according to David Ananyan, former Chairman of the State Revenue  Committee of Armenia and a member of the "Wings of Unity" party.

The politician noted that there are historical moments when the  external trajectory of political events can be deceptive. He observed  that while it may appear that elections in Armenia have concluded,  mandates have been distributed, post-election tensions have subsided,  relative calm has been established, and the government is allocating  positions as political forces reorganize to find a way forward, the  reality is quite different.

"In reality, beneath a veil of silence, something completely  different is happening deep within the country.  The foundations of  the state are cracking. Since June 7, Armenia has reached exactly  this dramatic threshold. The current situation is a simultaneous  crisis of legitimacy, the rule of law, and statehood. When these  three crises coincide, the state begins to exist more in its external  forms than in its internal substance," Ananyan stated.

According to him, the current Armenian government controls public  administration and the system of power, the courts, and the  parliamentary majority, but this control does not yet constitute  statehood. The politician emphasized that the state exists as long as  the government is based on trust, justice, and a sense of shared  destiny.

Ananyan is convinced that when these foundations are lost, the  government transforms into a self- preservation machine,  masking its  legitimacy  crisis  with new repressions, criminal prosecutions of  dissenters, and the cultivation of public fear. "From this point on,  repression ceases to be a political choice and becomes the system's  primary means of survival. However, the crisis affects more than just  the government. The entire opposition faces an equally critical  choice. Parliamentary and extra-parliamentary forces must decide  whether they can form a unified platform and a unified program of  struggle, or whether they will instead opt for  decentralized  resistance," he continued in a post on his Facebook page.

The "Wings of Unity" representative believes that a unified struggle  undoubtedly leads to the concentration of power, but a decentralized  struggle can also be effective if it doesn't devolve into private  ambitions, mutual neutralization, and endless competition for the  same audience.

He believes that it's not necessary for everyone to be in the same  structure, stand on the same stage, or speak the same language.  However,  it is essential that these  independent programs be  synchronized, complementary, and directed against the same systemic  problem.

"The forms of struggle may vary, but the essence of the struggle  cannot be contradictory. The foundation uniting these different paths  must be national—not in the sense of a cliche used in speeches, but  as the protection of our state identity, historical memory,  sovereignty, and right to exist. This must be anti- Turkish—not in  terms of hostility toward peoples, but in the sense of rejecting the  Turkish-Azerbaijani expansionist policy toward Armenia, the rewriting  of history, and the agenda aimed at suppressing the will of our  national resistance," Ananyan clarified.  According to the  politician, the struggle must be anti-government—not out of personal  hatred or a desire for revenge, but as a fight against a system that  internally presents external coercion as peace, retreat as realism,  and national self-abnegation as state wisdom.

"Today, the question is not even whether the struggle will be unified  or decentralized. History often does not even ask nations if they are  ready; it simply places them mercilessly before a choice. Today, our  choice is between the state and the system, between national  resistance and adaptation to defeat. All other differences are  temporary. This choice is fateful," Ananyan concluded.