Armenia needs new forces for complete reload - expert

ArmInfo. The political field of Armenia is facing a choice to which the current authorities have nothing to do. This was written on his Facebook page by a member of  the Alternative Projects group, Vahe Hovhannisyan. 

"The essence of this choice is as follows: to fight for power or the  opposition in the upcoming elections? In the first case, we can talk  about elections with a different attitude, with firm determination,  with a real assessment of their own capabilities, and in the second -  a fight for the comfort of the opposition, which is an exclusively  personal motivation," the expert noted.

According to him, the Armenian authorities, naturally, have their own  calculations, and the competitive picture after 2021 is in their  favor. The authorities understand that they do not have the same  number of votes (680 thousand), but they also understand that the  rest do not have the figures that they recorded during the previous  parliamentary elections. The same competitive field with proportional  or even disproportionate losses will allow the authorities to  reproduce themselves.

Hovhannisyan noted that the authorities are openly going to the  elections. "We need new forces, new alliances and new ideas to defeat  them through snap or regular elections and carry out a deep reset in  the country. It is not a question of love or dislike, and I must  emphasize that this is not a question of the present and the past,  the participants in the 2021 elections also have the right to  participate in the upcoming elections and even succeed. Another thing  is that this should be done in the right formats and with the right  words. I am sure that it is more than possible to win and form a new  government in the upcoming elections, whether regular or snap. But  this must be done if new forces appear, even if at the moment they  seem incredible, if only for the simple reason that the realities of  today and 2021 are completely different," the expert emphasized.

To put it simply, he continued, the authorities will go to the  elections solely to retain power, but they have nothing to offer  Armenia. "If we can form a collective force that will go to the  elections to come to power and offer Armenia something new, we will  succeed. And if the problem is to end up in the parliamentary  opposition again, then this is a service of private interest, and the  architects and participants of the opposition forces must accept it  honestly from the very beginning. The Armenian voter is ready to  leave home and go to the polling station if he sees that there is an  alternative and an opportunity to change the government," the expert  concluded.