{"id":192982,"date":"2018-12-11T22:43:43","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T22:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.meydan.tv\/article\/azerbaijani-reactions-to-armenian-elections-range-from-scorn-to-optimism\/"},"modified":"2021-10-29T14:49:01","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T10:49:01","slug":"azerbaijani-reactions-to-armenian-elections-range-from-scorn-to-optimism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meydan.tv\/en\/article\/azerbaijani-reactions-to-armenian-elections-range-from-scorn-to-optimism\/","title":{"rendered":"Azerbaijani reactions to Armenian elections range from scorn to optimism"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.meydan.tv\/az\/armenian-prime-minister-nikol-pashinyan-visits-the-grave-of-an-armenian-soldier-killed-in-the-nagorno-karabakh-conflict-with-azerbaijan-azerbaijan-reacted-variously-to-pashinyans-big-win-in-parliam\/\" alt=\"Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan visits the grave of an Armenian soldier killed in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict with Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan reacted variously to Pashinyan&#8217;s big win in parliamentary elections December 9. (photo: primeminister.am)\" class=\"wp-image-113964\"\/><figcaption>\n    Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan visits the grave of an Armenian soldier killed in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict with Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan reacted variously to Pashinyan&#8217;s big win in parliamentary elections December 9. (photo: primeminister.am)<br \/>\n  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\n  <i><br \/>\n    This article was originally published by<br \/>\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/eurasianet.org\/azerbaijani-reactions-to-armenian-elections-range-from-scorn-to-optimism\"><br \/>\n      Eurasianet<br \/>\n    <\/a><br \/>\n  <\/i>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Azerbaijani\u2019s government and media have heaped scorn on the recent elections in Armenia, but some optimists in the country found reason for hope that a new leadership in Yerevan could lead to progress in resolving the two countries\u2019 ongoing conflict.<\/p>\n<p>  Parliamentary elections in Armenia on December 9 delivered a<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/eurasianet.org\/armenian-voters-deliver-landslide-victory-to-revolutionary-leaders\"><br \/>\n    landslide victory<br \/>\n  <\/a><br \/>\n  to Nikol Pashinyan, the protest leader who became prime minister this spring. The elections were widely praised as the freest Armenia has held and placed it in sharp contrast to Azerbaijan, where elections are routinely and blatantly<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/eurasianet.org\/five-remarkable-things-about-azerbaijans-unremarkable-election\"><br \/>\n    falsified<br \/>\n  <\/a><br \/>\n  .<\/p>\n<p>  Neither the Azerbaijani Ministry of Foreign Affairs nor the president\u2019s office commented publicly on the elections next door. The state news agency Azertac<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/azertag.az\/en\/axtarish?search=armenia\"><br \/>\n    completely ignored<br \/>\n  <\/a><br \/>\n  the event. But some lower-ranking officials and more free-wheeling media were dispatched to pour cold water on Armenia\u2019s big day.<\/p>\n<p>  The vice speaker of Azerbaijan\u2019s parliament, Bahar Muradova,<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/en.trend.az\/azerbaijan\/politics\/2991694.html\"><br \/>\n    said<br \/>\n  <\/a><br \/>\n  in an interview with news website Trend that Pashinyan\u2019s victory had been \u201dalready determined\u201d and that \u201cindividuals and organizations that could prevent this were isolated, and citizens were sufficiently intimidated.\u201d Another MP<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/en.trend.az\/azerbaijan\/politics\/2991487.html\"><br \/>\n    said<br \/>\n  <\/a><br \/>\n  they were \u201cobviously \u2026\u00a0 anti-democratic and non-transparent.\u201d Another Trend story highlighted the handful of minor violations registered \u2013 the main international observer mission<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.osce.org\/odihr\/elections\/armenia\/405890?download=true\"><br \/>\n    noted<br \/>\n  <\/a><br \/>\n  the \u201cgeneral absence of electoral malfeasance\u201d \u2013<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/en.trend.az\/scaucasus\/armenia\/2991345.html\"><br \/>\n    reporting<br \/>\n  <\/a><br \/>\n  that \u201cElections in Armenia held in conditions of massive violations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>  The news website Haqqin, which takes a more flamboyant approach (and which is close to Azerbaijan\u2019s security services), chose to focus mainly on what it portrayed as Pashinyan\u2019s incipient authoritarian tendencies. \u201cWill Pashinyan become a dictator?\u201d one story asked. (It did conclude, notably, that he probably wouldn\u2019t.) Another article cited a Russian pundit comparing Pashinyan to Abulfaz Elchibey, the notorious second president of independent Azerbaijan, a nationalist who led the country to a disastrous defeat to Armenia in the war over Nagorno-Karabakh in the early 1990s. \u201cHe [Pashinyan] is an ordinary populist demagogue,\u201d<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/haqqin.az\/investigations\/141273\"><br \/>\n    said<br \/>\n  <\/a><br \/>\n  the pundit, Andranik Migranyan. \u201cOver time, in order to maintain his power, he will be forced to establish a tough dictatorship.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>  There were also expressions of optimism, though, in particular over the settlement of the Karabakh conflict and particularly among Azerbaijan\u2019s liberals. In this hopeful narrative, Pashinyan\u2019s emergence could provide a breakthrough on the long-stagnant peace talks between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p>  One political scientist, Eldar Namazov, pointed to the pre-election statement of one of Pashinyan\u2019s allies, Sasun Mikaelyan, that the spring protests that toppled the former regime were a greater victory than the one Armenians won in Karabakh. That prompted a<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/eurasianet.org\/pashinyan-clashes-with-nagorno-karabakh-leaders\"><br \/>\n    spat<br \/>\n  <\/a><br \/>\n  between Pashinyan and the de facto leadership in Nagorno-Karabakh, but Namazov noted that Mikaelyan got the highest number of votes among all individual candidates in Pashinyan\u2019s My Step Alliance. \u201cThis can be regarded as a change in the moods of the Armenian society and their actual agreement with the opinion that Karabakh is second for Armenians,&#8221; Namazov<br \/>\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.turan.az\/ext\/news\/2018\/12\/free\/Interview\/en\/77286.htm\"><br \/>\n    told<br \/>\n  <\/a><br \/>\n  the Turan news agency.<\/p>\n<p>  Others suggested that things could only get better after former president Serzh Sargsyan, who was from Karabakh and was a senior leader in the war there. \u201cFrom the Azerbaijani perspective, it is very good that Sargsyan is no longer in power. The very fact of his presidency was an insult to us,\u201d<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ErkinGadirli\/status\/1072031471643344897\"><br \/>\n    tweeted<br \/>\n  <\/a><br \/>\n  Erkin Gadirli, the foreign relations secretary for the opposition party ReAL. \u201cPashinyan is a fresh start and clean sheet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>  This may be misplaced optimism: at least in the first months of his premiership, Pashinyan has shown little indication of favoring the concessions that Azerbaijan expects, notably the return of the territories surrounding Karabakh that Armenian forces currently occupy and from which more than 500,000 Azerbaijanis remain displaced.<\/p>\n<p>  But there also has been objectively encouraging news about the conflict since Pashinyan came to power. The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe recently<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.osce.org\/minsk-group\/405479\"><br \/>\n    noted<br \/>\n  <\/a><br \/>\n  that, since Pashinyan and Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev agreed in September on a direct line of military communication between the two sides, there has been \u201ca significant decrease in ceasefire violations and reported casualties.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>  And a<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crisisgroup.org\/europe-central-asia\/caucasus\/armenia\/armenia-elections-boost-hopes-peace-azerbaijan\"><br \/>\n    report<br \/>\n  <\/a><br \/>\n  from the International Crisis Group released the day after the election noted that: \u201cThere are signs of optimism on the Azerbaijani side \u2026. Crisis Group\u2019s interlocutors in Baku insist that Azerbaijan maintains the truce in the hope that the direct line of communication will pave the way for genuine negotiations with the new Armenian leadership. On 5 December, the Armenian and Azerbaijani foreign ministers held their third meeting since Armenia\u2019s April revolution. Talks between the leaders could follow.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While official Baku and its friendly media sharply criticized the elections and Armenia\u2019s new leadership, some in the country expressed optimism that the door to a peace deal may have opened, if only a crack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":113964,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","infinite-scroll-item","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33","no-featured-image-padding"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Azerbaijani reactions to Armenian elections range from scorn to optimism - 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