Armenians around the world are closely following Armenia’s parliamentary election campaign to see whether Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s party will retain its majority in parliament, allowing him to remain in office for another five years.
These elections could have two major consequences: one for Armenia’s future and the other for Pashinyan himself.
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Pashinyan knows that he has no chance of winning an election fairly and squarely anymore, and his only option to stay in power, is to go into dictator mode, which he is certainly attempting to do by trying to crush and silence the democratic and patriotic opposition by any means.
Since he wants to stay in power at all costs, he will do so and is already doing so by going after all his opponents, will (have to) rig the elections for the abovementioned reasons, and will persecute the opposition even more.
It is the playbook and trajectory of every dictator and wannabe dictator.
Since free and fair elections, and a fair playing field for the opposition, let alone winning them, are impossible in Armenia under these circumstances, the only way to get rid of a traitor and dictator like Pashinyan (and he undeniably has become one), is through force; either through a revolution or through a coup d’état.
The so-called “international community”, especially the self-righteous and preachy West, condemns the overthrow of an elected leader and government through a revolution or especially through a coup d’état, even if that leader has become authoritarian or even a full dictator.
But when this leader and government, usurps power, engages in treasonous activities, appeases the nation’s archenemies, which threatens the territorial integrity and even the existence of the nation-state, and worse, is meekly accepted by the majority, who will not overthrow such a leader and government in a revolution, then a coup d’état is the last option left to save the nation before the demise.
Who cares what the reactions of the so-called “international community” and the “holier-than-thou” West are, when Armenia is at stake.