When the Police is operator and the power-provocateur
February 18 is already in the past ... To talk about violations will be unnecessarily, now is the time to talk about the results. Armenian President became Serzh Sargsyan, and fortunately or unfortunately for RA citizen, this time the authorities won the elections.
Republican ideas during the election period, in particular, to provide legitimacy, to hold elections without fraud, seems to have come true, despite the fact that rumors of fake elections are resounded in the whole country. However, his time Serzh Sargsyan has managed to kill two birds with one stone: first, he provided legitimacy of the elections, ensuring competition, and second, the opposition is changed, that is, replacing the former opposition leader Levon Ter-Petrosyan with Raffi Hovannisian, who, in contrast to Ter-Petrosian, is less of a threat for Serzh Sargsyan.
The elections were held with this pre-planned scenario, there were the competition and opposition, which differed from the opposition in 2008. This opposition is valid only within the laws of the Constitution. In all likelihood, Serzh Sargsyan was ready for the wave of protest that arose immediately after the announcement of the provisional results of the election, knowing well that without fraud it will be impossible to achieve the desired results. However, in this situation, RPA and Serzh Sargsyan were not serious enough to react to the other candidates, in particular, Raffi Hovannisian. Despite the fact that they were prepared for the worst, they did it in a square logic without considering Raffi Hovannisian's actions, who was unpredictable from the authorities. And that is where the government is panicked, because they do not know how to face this new kind of fight. And suddenly one of the members of the Republican Party emerged a great idea, to solve the problem with a version of provocateurs and policeman-operators.
What is the purpose of the shooting Raffi Hovannisian's rallies by the police?
First, policemen are trying to influence the people who are going to participate at meetings to know them well and to punish them further.
Secondly, the police changed its work profile and instead of crime detection and security meetings now it's preparing operators, who, why not, maybe in the future will find a job in Hollywood. But because Hollywood appears more as a pipe dream, the first option is more likely and acceptable.
There remains only the option that democracy is still very far from our country, that the government provokes that power scares and does not accept the validity of which everyone knows, including them. In this situation, we should hope that even in the case of this power Raffi Hovannisian's struggle will not make immoral steps will not provoke with those people who have no self-esteem.
Gevorg Avetisyan