ArmInfo. Over the past 2.5 years, the dialogue between the authorities and the opposition, to put it mildly, had failed. Political scientist Ruben Mehrabyan expressed this opinion to ArmInfo.
"The authorities are also to blame for this, of course. However, even at this, we see that the opponents of the authorities have always tried to use for their own purposes both the foreign policy agenda and realities, as well as domestic political issues. It's enough to say that, starting from May 8, 2018, they proclaimed Nikol Pashinyan as a " person handing over lands." And themselves, of course, supporters of the thesis "not an inch of land to the enemy," he said.
According to him, it was the unpreparedness of the Armenian society for a frank conversation that led to the 1998 coup. And today it is precisely the same forces that are striving to carry out the second coup, the forces that until September 27, 2020 parasitized on the 1994 victory. And today, after the situation has changed, these same people, according to the political scientist, are trying to parasitize already on defeat. In this regard, the political scientist asks the question - by what right do these parasites try to talk with the created society through democratic elections by the authorities in the language of ultimatums? Who gave them the powers of a prosecutor, a judge, who gave them the power to issue verdicts? What do the words "compel", "disobedience", etc., mean?
In this regard, Mehrabyan recalled that until April 17, 2018, the number of Pashinyan's supporters did not exceed two thousand, the rest was done by the people. Meanwhile, with its current disobedience, the opposition is acting in spite of the people, entering into many conflicts with drivers, etc. And all this imitation of disobedience, sooner or later, will infuriate the people.
"If these people are achieving exactly this it is another matter. But if they are trying not to go beyond rationalism, then I think the time has come to realize the need to choose a more reasonable way to present their own agenda to society. But this is clearly not the way they will choose. But at the same time, these people should understand that their desire to impose their own agenda on society can be rebuffed, and not only by the authorities and law enforcement agencies, but also by the society itself ", the political scientist concluded.