Wednesday, June 23 2021 14:38

ArmInfo.Whether he wants it or not, Nikol Pashinyan will now continue to work towards achieving a split in society. It is clear that today clashes on the streets are  completely not in his interests, especially since the opposition,  which was defeated at the elections, is also incapable of this, but  in the future such a split is quite possible. Political scientist  Stepan Danielyan expressed this opinion to ArmInfo.

The political scientist explains such forecast by the prospect of the  prime minister signing a document containing the preconditions for  Armenia's confirmation of the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan by  renouncing Artsakh. In his opinion, the prime minister's open speech  against the intelligentsia and the ideas of nationalism may well  provoke another round of popular discontent with Pashinyan. Coupled  with the promotion of some European ideas in Armenia, and incompetent  people sitting in parliament, all this, according to his forecasts,  may well cause a serious round of discontent.

Commenting on the reasons for Pashinyan's victory in 2018, Danielyan  highlighted the collapsed political system, the lack of trust in the  existing political forces. According to him, it is precisely as a  result of the many years of dirty play of the Armenian political  parties that, of course, a populist who is well acquainted with the  weaknesses of society, and perfectly uses the same demand of society  for justice, appeared in power.

The political scientist explains Pashinyan's latest victory by the  success of his policy of dumping responsibility for the last year's  military catastrophe on those predecessors who failed to create an  effective army and on corrupt generals. At the same time, the society  was persuaded with the idea that the Artsakh people who seized power  in Armenia, are guilty in corruption in the country. Another factor  was blaming Russia for all the troubles of Armenia. In this light,  Danielyan noted that instead of Pashinyan who is deprived of the  opportunity to accuse Moscow openly, this is being done by his  comrades-in-arms and supporters.

"And of course, the absence of, in fact, the political agenda of the  opposition political forces in Armenia played a role. The latter  raised a natural question among voters - why change the government if  nothing changes or even gets worse. Unfortunately, as a result of all  this, we are losing our political identity. After the collapse of the  USSR, it relied on independence, Artsakh - Karabakh, victory in the  Artsakh war, a strong army. Now all this has disappeared.  Accordingly, it is not clear what unites us all politically, "he  stressed.

According to the preliminary results of the early parliamentary  elections held on June 20 in Armenia, after the CEC counted votes  from all 2008 polling stations, the party of acting Prime Minister of  Armenia Nikol Pashinyan "Civil Contract" won - 53.92% - 687,251  votes. Pashinyan won in all regions of Armenia, including Yerevan.

Of the remaining 25 political forces that took part in the elections,  only the bloc of ex-President of Armenia Robert Kocharian "Armenia"  will be represented in the new parliament - 21.04% - 268,165 votes  and, as provided by law, the third force, which gained 5.23%- bloc "I  have the honor". All other political forces together collected 15.7%.  Of the 2.578 million citizens eligible to vote, 1,281,174 or 49.4% of  voters took part in the voting.