What can the elections in Georgia, Moldova and the United States teach the Armenian authorities and the opposition?

Moldova, Georgia and the United States—all these countries are now going through the election process. Georgia and Moldova overcame the election day itself, and now they feel the aftertaste of the election. In the United States, everything is just beginning, and the main vote is scheduled for November 5. However, today it is possible to draw a number of conclusions, including for the Armenian reality. Moreover, there are conclusions for both the authorities and the opposition.

Let’s start with Moldova. First of all, we should pay attention to the main specifics that determined the outcome of the vote: instead of the residents of the country, Moldovans outside the country determined its future. According to the final results, the incumbent president Maia Sandu was supported by 55.09% of voters, and the candidate of the Party of Socialists and former prosecutor general Alexandr Stoianoglo had 44.91% of support. The first results showed Sandu’s opponent leading, but then she advanced thanks to the votes of Moldovans living abroad. Excluding data from foreign sites, Stoianoglo had 51.19%, and Sandu had 48.81%. At polling stations abroad (323,784 voters), Sandu has 82.72% against her opponent’s 17.28%.

Don’t be surprised if, after the “Moldovan miracle”, “pro-Western” (however, since when has Turkey become part of the West?) forces in Armenia will propose to amend the electoral code, which will allow Armenians outside the country to vote and determine the path of the country’s development.

Another thing is also important: the Moldovan elections showed that any post-Soviet government will have total carte blanche from “civilized Europe and the civilized West as a whole” for any violations (and believe me, Nikol Pashinyan has already noticed this). You can shut down the media, prevent opposition candidates from running for elections, not send the right number of ballots to polling stations in other countries, knowing that the rating of the authorities in the diaspora of a particular country is low, and limit the work of observers, but Brussels and Washington will turn a blind eye to this. Read how the head of European diplomacy, Josep Borrel, praised the Moldovan elections, saying that the people allegedly chose the European future, and you will understand what it is about…

As for Georgia, the elections were supposed to show the Armenian opposition that even if you win the elections, it is not a fact that the “civilized world” will accept your victory. A simple example is MEP Sergey Lagodinsky, who stated that the election results contradict Article 78 of the Constitution of Georgia, which obliges the country to integrate into the EU.

The State Department, the EU, and other American and European officials expressed their “concern” about the election results. Therefore, we should be ready for post-election processes, protecting the results not only on the streets of cities but also being able to reverse the negative trend coming from the West. In Georgia, they decided to do this in a simple way: they legitimized the election results with a visit to the country by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.

The US election already shows that even in the “cradle of democracy” total, phenomenal violations may occur. For example, voters in Tarrant County, Texas, reported that polling machines were incorrectly counting votes. The vote for Donald Trump turns into the vote for Kamala Harris.

Therefore, we need to prepare for the elections in Armenia way earlier, and not 40 days before the elections, since we will have to confront a huge machine that acts the same way all over the world—from the streets of Chisinau to the Great Plains of Texas.

Another reason for an early preparation is that the “civilized Western world” is already preparing for the elections in Armenia. The election is being prepared by collecting signatures in the country to initiate a referendum on Armenia’s membership in the EU. The “white men” from the “civilized free world” are looking for a force that can join the National Assembly with Pashinyan’s “Civil Contract” party so that Pashinyan again has a majority in parliament—but this majority should be controlled by “the civilized West.”

Think about it…