“Nikol Pashinyan, without naming names or providing specific facts, accuses some opposition members of misunderstanding politics and ‘inciting war’ with their statements (if they win the elections) in the fall,” wrote Artak Zakaryan, a member of the RPA Supreme Body, on his Facebook page.
In his post, he specifically writes: “Perhaps he wants to sincerely admit that he himself understood nothing about this ‘damned politics.’ That is precisely why he made statements and actions that unwittingly ‘dragged’ Artsakh and Armenia into various wars and catastrophic losses.”
Let’s take a closer look at the “revisionism” of electoral processes.
2018. On December 9, the majority of citizens of the Republic of Armenia voted for the Communist Party. Soon after, a catastrophic 44-day war erupted, costing us thousands of young lives and approximately 7,800 square kilometers of territory.
On June 20, 2021, the majority of citizens of the Republic of Armenia again went and allegedly voted for the Communist Party. After some time, several short-term military operations occurred, resulting in the loss of hundreds of lives, the entirety of Artsakh, and 220 square kilometers of Armenian territory.
After these events, Nikol Pashinyan again says something along the lines of: “If you don’t vote for the Communist Party, war will break out by September.”
Or perhaps the opposite is true: if the citizens of the Republic of Armenia vote for the Communist Party for a third time, there’s a high probability that, in due course, we as a nation will face another threat.
And perhaps, in the event of a collective victory for the opposition and a national unification, there’s a chance to establish genuine peace, and Armenia will cease to be an instrument of others’ grandiose policies.
It’s clear from the Communist Party’s statements that what terrifies them isn’t the disruption of the existing unstable peace or a possible war, but the loss of their power.
P.S.
Wouldn’t it be better for the Communist Party to add new articles to the administrative and electoral codes, according to which, if an RA citizen votes against the Communist Party, they are considered “a person acting against peace” and are fined, for example, a thousand times the minimum wage. If they repeat the same act a second time (in the next parliamentary elections), the citizen is deprived of the right to vote. The third time, when nothing remains of a sovereign Armenia led by the Communist Party, they are acquitted?