Musa Mikayelyan in his political analysis states the “joint candidate” did his job because all the public energy and attention that would be needed to cast on the presidential elections was used for anticipating a decision from the opposition which is silent.
The “joint candidate” operation managed to paralyze the social and political life in Armenia and the ruling government did not interfere to change a thing. As Mikayelyan sates, the opposition does nothing but factually supporting the incumbent government’s plans and in case it were a real opposition, it would rise from below, be a result and the bearer of public ideas, be a firm ground for presenting the public needs. However, according to Mikayelyan, today’s opposition is so vague that the part of it which used to be in an opposite camp a couple of years ago, does not have the courage to contradict Sargsyan.
Mikayelyan says if an opposition is formed on such political powers who carried out March 1st events, who build its strategies and existence on corruption, this opposition not only does not contradicts the incumbent government, but speaks of its interests.
Mikayelyan concludes, that is why the “joint candidate” whether be there one or not, will never represent the public. What today’s opposition does is gathering the criminal and oligarchic clan under its supervision to make the irretrievable.