THE FIRST ISSUE IS LEGITIMACY

After the formation of the new coalition government almost the whole governmental elite is speaking about making lofty reforms and presenting it like the best way of retrieving the trust of the society to the government. Political scientist Alexander Iskandaryan, however thinks that before making reforms the government has to recover its legitimacy. “Judging from the conduct of the presidential elections in regard of post-electoral developments, the government was illegitimated. In this regard the situation is pretty similar to 1996 as regardless of the outcome and motive of the use of force the government becomes destabilized in the eyes of the society even if the use of force proves to be efficient. At any rate, only the weak government uses law-enforcers to stabilize the situation. The strong government just doesn’t need it because it doesn’t have a major problem with the credo of the majority of the society,” Iskandaryan told our reporter.

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