Opposition elites continue to underestimate the full seriousness of the current situation and do not understand that the unification of protest forces today has no alternative. This opinion was expressed by political analyst Edgar Elbakyan, commenting on the current balance of forces in the opposition field.
According to him, the opposition behaves like gangster groups that carry out internal disputes and eliminate each other, without realizing that they are effectively carrying out orders from intelligence services that pit them against one another. “The fragmentation of the opposition, driven by subjective motives, only strengthens the positions of the authorities and allows them to pursue a destructive course that leads the country into an abyss,” Elbakyan noted.
The political analyst emphasized that the problem lies not in individual opposition leaders, but in the system as a whole. “The modern political field, formed after 1991 under the influence of Soviet-Armenian culture, was initially adapted for peacetime. Even today, new parties continue to be established, which could be welcomed under other circumstances, but not when the country faces a national-liberation struggle. Such a struggle can achieve its goals only if there is a single center of power. In 1988, that center was the Karabakh Committee, and in the early 20th century, it was the Dashnaktsutyun party. The point is not the structure itself, but that all the nation’s strength is concentrated within this center,” he said.
Elbakyan expressed regret that the opposition still does not understand that the Armenian people are confronted with the necessity of waging a national-liberation struggle. The protest forces operate by inertia, limiting themselves to establishing parties, opening offices and headquarters, and forming commissions. “All of these are methods of political struggle, but they only work in peacetime,” the political analyst emphasized.