ArmInfo. The desire to maintain power implies the aspirations of the ruling political force in Armenia for reforms. It simply has no other alternative. Director of "Ashkharh" ("World") Center of Strategic Research Hrachya Arzumanyan expressed a similar opinion to ArmInfo.
"It seems impossible to refrain from reforms in the existing conditions of the Armenian society's recovery from many years of hibernation, moreover, in the context of the current global crisis. In this light, the institutions of state power in Armenia should stop criticizing. Moreover, they should stop working on imitations of reforms, taking up their real implementation, "he remarked.
Under reforms that can seriously change the future of the country, at least by laying the foundation for real reforms, the analyst implies the reform of state institutions of power and future transformation, reformation and transformation of society through the dissemination of democratic values and principles, and, of course, the judicial system.
According to Arzumanyan's estimates, the aforementioned gains additional importance in the context of the coronavirus pandemic, which pushes to the forefront the need to establish a strong, effective state. And it is COVID-19 that is, to this day, a kind of indicator of the real state of state institutions.
"It can already be noted that it was the long-standing existential threat to the security of Armenia and Artsakh that made the state, as a whole, competent. Including in confronting the coronavirus infection. The state is capable, despite the fact that it is weakened by external pressure and internal criminal oligarchic clans. And under the conditions of blocking the democratic path of the development of society and the state in the emerging security environment, the government will simply be forced to continue transformations through deep reform of the state governmental institutions ", the analyst concluded.