Anniversary for making the impossible possible
One year ago, on February 18, 2013, there was presidential election in Armenia, as a result of which the incumbent president Serzh Sargsyan won the election in the first vote. Formally the second candidate after the president that lost the election was Raffi Hovhannisyan, who in spite of many forecasts collected 540,000 votes (37 per cent). In fact one year ago the one who lost the election for Serzh Sargsyan was not Raffi Hovhannisyan but the Armenian society.
This was not due to Raffi Hovhannisyan’s image of a beloved people’s candidate but fact that the way they “hit the percentage of votes” really hit down any possibilities of changing things in Armenia. In fact Serzh Sargsyan’s victory over the society of Armenia was possible due to the participation, or condemned inactivity of other political powers of Armenia.
ANC, PA and ARF refused to take part in the elections, and later they were rejoicing at the fact that Raffi Hovhannisyan went to pray with the police chief Vladimir Gasparyan. None of those political powers explained why they had been so infantile and did not participate in the election, and after the election why they did not lead the critical mass of the society.
Following the election Raffi went on hunger strike, and then left for Russia to bring victory from Mr Putin. Apparently the victory did not cross the borders of Armenia due to problems with “customs clearance.” However, shortly Raffi Hovhannisyan left for the US and showed how one could disperse his own political capital.
It was possible due to Raffi’s wrong political calculations and maybe personal characteristics as the so-called non-government political powers had boycotted the elections, thus giving a great favor to the incumbent government and their candidate. By an interesting coincidence the same political powers are today struggling for replacing the incumbent government. This is very strange because they gave their trust to Serzh Sargsyan one year ago by refusing to take part in elections.
By the way, today Raffi Hovhannisyan will send a message to the society in a hotel. We wonder if Vladimir Gasparyan will go there in person to receive that message in person, or will wait for Raffi at the Tsitsernakaberd memorial – their favorite place of meeting. They can meet to pray again, and they can pray for the anniversary of the recent elections in Armenia. By the way, by doing so they may find out that this was the last election in Armenia.
