In Sight
Diaspora expectations and Armenia’s 2026 election
In roughly eight months, Armenia will hold its 2026 parliamentary election. The process of winning and allocating seats in the National Assembly can be complicated, but in the parliamentary system of governance, the party that wins the majority of seats will directly, or through an alliance with other parties, nominate the individual to serve as prime minister.
This was essentially the process in the 2021 snap parliamentary elections, when the Civil Contract party earned the right to nominate him as prime minister, which the Parliament (National Assembly) formalized at the election of the prime minister after the nomination.
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This will be the most fateful election of Armenia since independence, and will be a choice between democracy or a full-blown Pashinyan dictatorship. Since dictators like Pashinyan don’t leave power willingly, democratically and peacefully, and in all certainty will try to cling to it at all costs, mayhem is lying ahead.
For seven decades, a faction of the Diaspora stood against Soviet Armenian governance because it was not democratic. While the other faction, accepted the Soviet Armenian governance for security considerations. But neither of them knew and cared to know who the prime minister of Soviet Armenia was, or who the Armenia politburo chief was.
Stepan, yes, you are right that the most important thing is the continued growth of Armenia’s democratic institutions and market economy. After all, and “Simply put, if the democratic institutions of Armenia are not supported in this transition, then what is the point of sovereignty?” Your quote, I have quoted several times.
@Stepan Piligian
You’re not really naive enough to think that the US will ever send the Seventh Cavalry to rescue Armenia from the Turks?
The American part of your identity needs to acknowledge the truth that 99.99% of Americans can’t find Armenia on a map.
Armenia’s “dependency” on Russia?
Well, apart from the fact that Armenia cannot survive without cheap Russian energy, there is a little matter of Geography.
What do you think will happen to Armenia if it has to pay market prices for energy?
As for the Americans, all they ever care about is their air base in Incirlik. They will sacrifice Armenia to the Turks rather than lose Incirlik.
As for Geography, Armenia is not in the heart of Europe. It is in the extreme South-East of Europe with barbaric Asiatic Turks on both of its Eastern and Western borders. Armenian Americans cannot change Geography.
As for Armenian Americans, you need to acknowledge Geography and become the greatest Russophile force in America.
Geography Whig and the 99.99%
Looking at maps i see how Armenia doesn’t adjoin Russia and how that country adjoins Ukraine which it’s currently occupying and attacking which is unquestionably more important to Russia than Armenia even on a good day.
The 99.99% figure with making such statements perhaps a survey across the USA excluding persons of Armenian ancestry should be done to find out how true this is . Besides few Americans had much doing with Kuwait and Kosovo but they would become a centre of attention for the USA. Cheap Russian energy; between US led sanctions (Trump is not a Kremlin agent btw) and Ukrainian with NATO support attacks on Russia oil and gas infrastructure Russia ability to supply Armenia with hydrocarbons at any price is coming under strain. USA cares far more for Israel than incirlik airbase although Armenia isn’t that important to the USA. It’s always been questionable if Armenia, like Georgia and Azerbaijan is part of Europe given the traditional boundaries are the Caucasus mountains and the Bosporus straight. Vouching for Russia in the USA currently would attract suspicion given the near collapse in the relationship and proxy war over Ukraine.