"Fact" daily writes:
When the post-election period in the country begins with unprecedented political tension, and the rules of the game begin to be dictated exclusively from positions of power, the society faces a systemic crisis.
The situation, when the leader of the largest opposition force finds himself under house arrest, and the ruling elite publicly threatens to punish and imprison all the main opponents, violates the basic norms of political competition.
Moreover, when pre-election programs target spiritual and religious structures with constitutional protection, and central electoral bodies and courts deprive one of the forces of parliamentary mandates through post-election manipulations, the rule of law ceases to function.
The arbitrary cancellation of parliamentary immunity, the legal campaigns against opposition figures and their property, as well as the one-sided propaganda of the state media and the instructed expert field prove one thing: the state apparatus is completely committed to preserving autocracy.
In these difficult conditions, the opposition field seems to have started looking for ways out of the situation. Two days ago, Samvel Karapetyan revealed certain brackets about those possible steps and strategy.
He mentioned that soon he will initiate a broad consolidation of the opposition forces, which will be accompanied by an active rally struggle, and in a few days they will make a statement about calling a big rally.
In the created situation, in fact, two main paths have been formed, along which the political struggle should proceed, and as the developments show, the opposition has chosen the tactic of using them in parallel. The first way is the continuation of legal processes. Despite the open selective justice carried out by the prosecutor's office and the courts, going through all legal instances, appeals and legislative arguments remain a necessity.
This is important for documenting the arbitrariness and illegalities of the ruling system to both the domestic public and international observers.
The second and most crucial way is the sharp increase of street pressure, which was announced by Samvel Karapetyan. When the constitutional and parliamentary channels are forcibly limited, direct democracy and public mass legal resistance become the only effective tools that can force the administrative machinery to take into account the real demands of the society and stop the smooth transition of the state to total authoritarianism. Details in today's issue of "Past" daily
