Much has been talked about Armenia’s non readiness to hold elections on June 20. A number of evidences were supplied to substantiate that it is true. Let us remind the most important ones of them.
- The political system of Armenia is collapsed, and the political parties do not have public trust.
- After the defeat in the war, the public is still in a state of shock and is not ready to make a political choice.
- The public is divided into hostile camps, the best indicator of which is the content of social networks, which is full of mutual accusations and bitter insults.In such case going to the polls may imply deepening mutual hatred and enmity.
- We continue to be in a state of war, the enemy has crossed our borders, and in a state of war elections are not hold at all.
Much has also been talked about forming an interim government and postponing the elections for at least a year as best solution of the problem.
Nonetheless we have what we have, and parliamentary elections are inevitable if nothing extraordinary happens, such as declaration of martial law, etc.
Now let's try to understand the slogans and theses of the main "bitter" enemies, the internal political forces of Armenia, who aspire to take seats in the new parliament. The theses seem to be well-known and are so primitive that it is difficult to call them political ideologies.
- The so-called thesis of the "new" or the incumbent government is "No to the former robbers.,"
- The main thesis of the so-called "formers", "No to traitors and capitulators" (by which one can understand any force that has previously been in the parliament or in the Government) does not yield to the view of the first one in simplicity.
- The thesis of the so-called "third" forces, who have not been part of the government before or now, is also an expression that says nothing - "Neither the former nor the incumbent." According to taste, the third formulation can be added to that concept. "Neither to the former, nor to those incumbent. National future "or" Neither the former nor to the incumbent. Citizen’s decision," or "Neither the former nor the incumbent.” “To the Bright West," etc. It can be continued according to taste and simplicity of perception.
As we see, the political thought of Armenia is becoming more primitive and more populist. However, the public has different expectations, which refer to:
- the future of Artsakh,
- security of Armenia's borders,
- avoiding the expected collapse of the economy,
- increasing emigration rates,
- the change of the moral and psychological state of the society and the overcoming of the division of the society.
The list can be continued and on, but that's not the point but at least answering those five questions, that is, to offer those questions to the public, even at the level of theses. Is there any such offer or not?
This is the problem and it seems that these questions will remain in the air without answers. Naturally, this is a consequence of the bankruptcy of political thought and political parties and the main description of our present.