WHY OPPOSITION WON’T UNITE
- Classical Model Doesn’t Work
There is a widespread opinion that pro-governmental and pro-opposition powers are conjoined by the common logic of the development of political domain. Consequently the stronger the pro-governmental powers the stronger opposition and vise verse. But this formulation of political sciences doesn’t work in the present condition of Armenia. On the contrary the more disorganized is the pro-governmental domain the more disorganized is the opposition.
When we count the individuals and organizations working in the opposition sector of the political domain we get a significantly big number. Such as – “Orinats Yerkir” and “Heritage” parties representing parliamentary opposition, ex-parliamentary opposition “National Union”, “Ardarutyun” and Armenian Pan National Party with its satellites and branches, “Nor Jamanakner”, Communist Party and others. In short we have pro-opposition powers of any color, approaches and taste.
But if the picture is quite satisfactory in terms of number and variety, the same can’t be said about its concept and gravity. For the recent many years Armenian opposition has been facing one problem – to unite and appear with a united candidate.
Moreover we can’t even expect a unification of a kind in the near future. And this is the reason?
The first reason is that the pro-opposition activists are of different “origins”. That is to say their motives of being in pro-opposition domain are different.
The second reason is their ideological and geopolitical differences (if they really exist). Today’s pro-opposition domain consists of radical liberals, nationalists, Bolshevik-revolutionists. In addition to this some of them are confirmed pro-westerns and some are sworn pro-Russians.
Besides that they have diametrically contradicting viewpoints about the future of the country.
Another “anti-uniting” factor is their personal inaptness. These people hate one another and separately they hate others. Meanwhile they all consider themselves presidents.
But even in such conditions it is possible to unite. Of course if there is an axis of unification – a goal, an idea, and finally a strong power to achieve this goal. From the first sight it seems there is a goal, which is “to carry out a coup d'état through elections”. But the problems is, though the activists of the pro-opposition domain are of the same opinion as regards the coup d'état, they still can’t reach an agreement about the united candidate.
And finally the most important condition that hinders the unification of the pro-opposition powers is that they don’t trust one another. Each of them states that he is real opposition activist and the others are false and any time they are ready “to sell themselves”. And this statement of course is far not groundless.
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