The developments we see in the Electric Yerevan protests can be described as nothing more than just a civil disobedience campaign, says Edgar Vardanyan, an expert from the Armenian Center of National and International Studies (ACNIS).“It was very impromptu and not institutionalized; there was a specific goal related to specific government policies. It was not the authorities policies those people were expressing disobedience to, announcing that they wanted to change the regime and establish rule of law. They just wanted to have a specific decision changed,” he told reporters on Thursday.
Vardanyan said he thinks that the goal was very clearly reflected in the demonstrators’ slogans and activists’ speeches.
“They weren’t saying, ‘we complain about the hike’; it all had to do with the corrupt system that caused all that to happen, with the decision-making being non-transparent and ruling out citizens’ participation,” he added.
Analyzing further the popular movement’s structure, the expert said he sees that most of its participants are young people with average income.
Source: tert.am