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    NEW FORCE, NEW OPPOSITION
    Hakob Badalyan

    Lragir.am
    13/01/10

    The regular election rigged in Armenia with apparent cynicism and the
    calm attitude of the Armenian National Congress towards it when they
    stated after the election that they had never believed Nikol Pashinyan
    would have won and the election was illegal, shows the need to think
    about a new opposition or force in Armenia. Discussions on this topic
    activated, mainly on the level of experts' opinions.

    All this has quite objective grounds. The current opposition is
    apparent to have lost its trust within a tangible part of the
    society due to its strategic mistakes and errors. In addition, the
    society did not lose its trust towards the opposition because of the
    reason that the latter is not making a revolution or is not holding
    rallies. The real reason for the loss is that during time the words
    of the opposition assimilated to those of the government and the
    society stopped noticing the difference between the opposition and
    the government.

    While, in order to succeed in struggle with the Armenian government,
    the latter does not need to be radically criticized but the society
    is needed to be shown concrete differences between the opposition and
    the government. When the current opposition was able to fulfill this
    task, it was the dictator of the situation. As soon as the opposition
    started looking for success within geopolitical traps, the difference
    between the opposition and the government disappeared on this plane
    and the opposition had only to wait for the government to collapse
    or to become tolerant.

    Conversations on the need of a new force are natural to be augmented
    against this background which regularly activate in Armenia when
    presence of a serious amount of distrust between the society and
    the opposition becomes evident. Do the conversations on the need of
    a new force contain practicality? From this point, we have to state
    that during the history of the newly-independent Armenia every time
    such conversations appeared, they have never contained practicality.

    The reason of course is not that the creation of a new force was
    equally dangerous for the opposition and the government of a certain
    period of the Armenian history and they tried to eliminate it just
    from the cradle which will surely happen now if such a force is
    noticed. The point is that the conversations on the creation of a new
    force in Armenia have always been based on the propaganda axis of the
    distraction of the current forces. In other words, the conversations
    on the creation of a new force are based on expectations: the current
    forces are expected to collapse for the need to create a new force
    to be voiced again.

    In other words, the observations and discussions on a new force are
    offered to the public according to the logic of the old forces: x
    and y collapsed, the society remained without a political force, so
    it is right time to create a new one. This is already an artificial
    ground for the creation of a new force. The point is that politics
    is a natural process. If someone has something to say and to do,
    it says and does it independently from what the "old" forces of the
    same process say or do. In addition, it does not base its words and
    actions on the failures of the "old" forces but exceptionally on its
    own values. If the society is bored with the "old" forces and does
    not believe them any longer, it will follow the new force and will
    believe it. Otherwise, they will have to "reign over ruins" which
    is the dream of almost all the political forces of Armenia as they
    can determine their mistakes by the ruins which left the previous
    governor. We are witnessing now what comes out of all this when say
    successes are determined by new thinking, and failures are reasoned
    by the mistakes of previous years.

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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