YEREVAN. – The elections in Armenia are over, and this means there will not be a hot political summer in the country and the politicians will go on vacation, political technologist Karen Kocharyan told Armenian News-NEWS.am.

“The political forces in our country position [themselves] six months prior to elections. They still do not have the culture to realize that politics is a continuous process. [But] of course, there are political forces that have understood this, but they are fewer,” Kocharyan said.     

According to him, the special congress of the opposition ARF Dashnaktsutyun Party will be this summer’s sole important political event in Armenia, and the results of this congress could be quite serious. “The word is about a change in the leaders,” he stressed.     

“The leader in our [political] parties is perceived as an idol, if not, [as] a God. As a result, the leader does not change and a political stagnation comes about,” Karen Kocharyan noted. He added, however, that only the presence of external signals could prevent a political stagnation in summer.