Armenia`s Crossroads: Will June 7 mark the return of reason?

ArmInfo.  Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has clearly chosen a new logic for his election campaign: every day brings new abomination. Vahe  Hovhannisyan, a member of the Alternative Projects Group, writes  in  his article.

According to him, this is no longer a question of good or evil, but a  conscious decision. Opposition forces must be flexible and adaptable  to this decision. Otherwise, the upcoming crucial months will devolve  into a "campaign of nonsense." 

"It's not enough to monotonously expound our programmatic positions.  They will drown in the government's abomination, which will continue  to unfold daily and become increasingly abominable.  Reacting to  abomination is rarely successful, but it shouldn't become the primary  tactic. In the current situation, the joint tactic of the political  opposition and healthy segments of society must become a new public  project, 'Life After June 7.' This is both a tactic and a psychology.  It is a unique basis for joint action.  Opposition forces must  communicate with each other and, most importantly, with the public,  and build their relationships according to this logic: what will we  do, how will we cooperate, how will we move forward, what will we  agree on, what will we abandon, how will we emerge step by step from  the consequences of the catastrophes they left in their wake, and so  on. Our programs must be presented to the public precisely through  this tactic," the political scientist emphasized. 

He added that it will change the public atmosphere, creating a huge  cloud of change that will linger in the air and  technically be  resolved on June 7. "The upcoming elections are exclusively internal  Armenian elections, in which we will determine our internal life for  the coming years: abomination or reason? It is necessary to explain  that life after June 7 will first and foremost solve the most simple  and important issue:  the return of reason to power, to the state  system. As for the story of abomination and slander, we must muster  the courage and admit that for 5-6 years now, the world, and  especially our neighboring countries, have been watching us as an  experiment in how much the people can tolerate. We must speak openly  about this with each other and with our people, so that, starting  from June 7, these shameful situations will finally begin to be  forgotten," Vahe Hovhannisyan concluded.