Thursday, June 11 2020 13:00

ArmInfo. Oddly enough, but the  most important of the forces requiring the resignation of the  government is Gagik Tsarukyan, Sociologist Karen Sargsyan expressed a  similar opinion to ArmInfo.

"Neither Artur Vanetsyan, nor the Republicans have any significant  electorate today. Former director of the National Security Service  Vanetsyan is dangerous only in terms of information that he can use  against the government. But Tsarukyan, regardless of everything, has  electorate, he gained it for all these years.  Therefore, it's  Tsarukyan who is able to become a consolidating force. The combined  electorate of all these forces will be 15 percent. This amount is not  enough for serious steps, but it is rather sufficient to make a claim  about themselves, "he said.

In general, against the backdrop of the coronavirus pandemic,  socio-economic problems caused by the quarantine, he characterizes  dissatisfaction with power as completely natural. The attempt of some  political forces to use this discontent for their own political and  other purposes is not surprising.

The sociologist noted that often conflicting statements and some  actions of the authorities, the speeches of Mikael Minasyan, etc.,  are added to the objective coronavirus realities and the accompanying  discontent.  All this raises questions for which no answers are  provided. Then comes a political force that requires the resignation  of the government. At the same time, he does not forecast any  resignation in the near future.

According to Sargsyan, such demands do not mean anything. While the  practice of the previous decade has shown that the discontent of the  masses usually ends with nothing. Moreover, opponents of power in a  similar situation operate on the principle that constant dropping  wears away a stone. Respectively, they raise more and more questions  to which the government does not answer.

According to the sociologist, all this leads to an obvious drop in  the rating of power, which is already recognized by the power itself.  The problem is that the internal political tension will not disappear  with the disappearance of coronavirus. According to his forecasts, a  decrease in the spread of infection, on the contrary, will be  accompanied by an increase in discontent.

<The peak of this discontent will be in autumn months, when the  country will be covered by a second wave of coronavirus, which is  inevitable. And this discontent is quite capable of finally  destabilizing the domestic political situation. The authorities have  human resources to prevent such a worst-case scenario.  However, I am  not sure whther there is any political will for this >, the   sociologist concluded.