If we believe the incumbent Prime Minister, Armenia will hold early parliamentary elections on June 20. What is more, why did the incumbent regime have to agree to hold elections and, in general, what are the parliamentary elections, what problems are solved through them?

The question seems primitive at first sight. After all, everyone knows that there is no other way to form a government, therefore we regularly participate in elections. Yet, such an answer is superficial in order to understand the profound functional significance of this occurrence. If we approach the matter more profoundly, we will treat that event in a different way.

So, let us try to state the main objectives of the elections. They involve:

• identifying the interests of people from different walks of life through bringing those interests into political form,
• a legal solution to the struggle of various political actors seeking power,
• legitimization of the government system,
• updating the participants of the political field, i.e. enabling employment opportunities for social lifts,
• involving citizens in political processes and uniting them around this or that initiative.

Thus, we presented the significance of the elections in a nutshell. Nonetheless, what happened in Armenia, which caused the need to hold snap elections?

The 2018 parliamentary elections were a real disaster for the political system.  The old actors left the National Assembly and the Government, giving way to the emergence of new people with zero experience in politics and government, who were however quite complacent and arrogant.  We all witnessed what they brought down on us. Now a new political system will be formed through new elections, but are we ready for that now? According to the popular opinion no!

The elections seem to have been announced and we have to do something. First of all, we must elect some people who will determine the future of the country and the people.  Nevertheless, the criteria for their election and motivation are still unknown and incomprehensible to the citizens. The primitive and demagogic slogan to elect "neither the incumbent nor the past authorities" is about nothing and, besides, it has already been implemented once, in 2018, and the result, to put it mildly, is not satisfactory.

It seems that we will have to step into "same river" once again, we will elect not parties, but individuals out of the candidates for the post of Prime Minister, like in 2018 when we elected an individual and unknown people gathered around him. Now history can repeat itself, and we will go to the polls, in fact, to elect a Prime Minister. And it is not quite clear whether we will vote for the parliament or for the Prime Minister.