Thursday, July 22 2021 11:53

ArmInfo.Second president of Armenia, leader of the "Armenia" bloc Robert Kocharian is convinced that early parliamentary elections did not resolve the internal  political crisis in the country.

So, in an interview with several Armenian media, answering the  relevant question, the politician, in particular, said: "The reasons  that led to the internal political crisis did not disappear, and now  we must answer one question: are elections a time machine, can they  turn back time or not? It is clear that they cannot, so what happened  in October-November will haunt this political team all its life. ". "

At the same time, he stated that about 400,000 people voted for  political forces that consider the current government to be  treacherous and incompetent. In his words, these people stayed in  Armenia, these people with their activity, consciousness, and ability  to analyze are a qualitative part of our society.

"How can we talk about overcoming the political crisis in these  conditions? By the way, we are not talking about different  approaches, what kind of social policy is being pursued in Armenia,  more liberal or more socialist? It is not about the participation of  the state in different sectors. We're talking about fundamental  issues, fundamental losses. You see, we do not have answers to a  number of questions, how did we lose Shushi, Hadrut, if we do not  have these answers,  how can we talk about overcoming the internal  political crisis? It's not possible, perhaps now a little less, and  in a month it will get more publicity, but, I repeat, elections are  not a time machine, they do not erase the past, "the second president  of Armenia believes.

At the same time, he stated that the current authorities of the  country received the most votes in the villages, while the  agricultural sector was most ignored by this government. According to  Kocharian, this is a paradox, but at the same time it is a sign to  the subsequent authorities that it is possible to ignore people in  villages, not to support them through subsidies and various programs,  but to enlist their unconditional support. "This distorts the  political field of Armenia. This is not good, but so far we have such  a situation," he said.

Touching upon the reasons for the Bloc's defeat in these elections,  Kocharian noted that this issue worries not only him, but a lot of  other people, including psychologists and political scientists. He  expressed his conviction that three factors became decisive in the  defeat: "The first is the division into exes and present, which  carries elements of the class struggle, division into Armenians and  "Karabakh people". In addition, it is fear of the danger of a new  war. That part of the population, which resigned itself to defeat,  saw a threat in the "decent peace" declared by the "Hayastan" bloc.  In the opinion of this category of citizens, steps leading to a  decent peace are fraught with a resumption of war. "

He stated that the Armenian society found itself in a shock situation  after the propaganda carried out by the country's authorities during  the war. According to Kocharian, the goal of their bloc was to get  the people out of this state of shock. "During the election campaign,  we and our bloc tried to give people hope and faith in the future.  Meanwhile, the authorities created internal political tension,  provoked this tension with hammers, tried to aggravate, turn  everything in their favor, and somewhere they succeeded," he said. 

Speaking about the processes in the Constitutional Court on appealing  the results of early elections, Kochanian pointed to the arrests and  detentions of oppositionists during this period. According to him,  they were not accidental, and even were expected.

"In addition, they were carried out at a time when the Constitutional  Court was considering the opposition's petition to invalidate the  election results, which was also a message, and not only for the  Constitutional Court, but also for the heads of local self-government  bodies in the context of the upcoming elections. They were also aimed  at creating an atmosphere of fear.

Welcome to Saddam Hussein's Iraq. I have the impression that the  desire of these authorities is to turn the bastion of democracy into  a cemetery of democracy, "said the second President of the Republic  of Armenia.

He also recalled that a criminal case was initiated against him three  years ago, but he came out of this process even stronger. Kocharyan  assured that every head of the community, who is now arrested, will  get out of this situation stronger, and the charges are fabricated  and serve the interests of a small group of people.  At the same  time, Kocharian noted that he closely followed the sessions of the  Constitutional Court and can state that the decision of the  Constitutional Court does not contain answers to a number of  questions that Bloc spoke about during the sessions. "I'm not even  talking about the fact that the representatives of the Civil Contract  had nothing to say, and the Prosecutor's Office acted as a lawyer for  the government: the hammer is a symbol, there were no words about  physical violence, it's all absurd, but a fact. I don't remember a  single elections, during which such a volume of administrative  resources would be used. I don't remember any elections in which the  first person of the state threatened his opponents with physical  violence. It didn't happen. I don't remember such behavior from  Ter-Petrosyan, I don't remember that I ever did something like that,  and I don't remember such manifestations on the part of the third  president, "the second president of Armenia said.

According to him, if the prosecutor's office considers it normal,  when the Constitutional Court does not refer to these phenomena, it  means one thing - it will become an integral part of the Armenian  political culture. The politician added that responsibility for this  situation lies with the Constitutional Court, the CEC and the  Prosecutor's Office.  "The CEC gave its consent to the arrest so  easily that it is simply amazing. Combining all this, it is simply  unnecessary to say that this government is legitimate. Of course,  this government did not receive legitimacy as a result of these  elections. Such a decision should not have been taken by the  Constitutional Court." In any case, there were publications in the  press that three judges were against this decision, the rest can be  understood in a purely human way, one can understand the lack of  courage in such an atmosphere, but from the point of view of a sense  of responsibility for the future of the country, of course, it is  incomprehensible.  not even mention some points in the decision.We  did not say that this government received few votes, we contested  about 200 thousand votes, but what was done by the state bodies  provided sufficient grounds for reviewing many things in the  Constitutional Court, and we expected, that the decision of the  Constitutional Court will be slightly different. Yes, this government  received votes, but such systematic violations, the atmosphere the  sphere of fear was unprecedented, and the Constitutional Court had to  consider it, "Kocharian said.  At the same time, he stressed that  based on the above, you need to go to the country's parliament and  continue the struggle. "Having a second faction in parliament, the  Hayastan bloc will acquire a sufficiently serious instrument for  political struggle. Yes, now it is already clear who will enter  parliament. There are people with experience of being lawmaker, there  are those who will be in parliament for the first time. It takes time  to organize work. Now we are working on this, I hope that in the  coming days the faction will be ready for a political struggle,  "Kocharian said, adding that he does not take a mandate, since he  sees himself more in the executive body than in the legislature.