Pashinyan, the defeated winner
In 1945, Winston Churchill showed the world that winning the Second World War was not enough to get re-elected. More than 70 years later, Armenia has taught another lesson. In June 2021 Nikol Pashinyan, who came to power after the 2018 Velvet Revolution, despite a heavy defeat in Nagorno-Karabakh, managed to win in the snap elections and was confirmed as prime minister. With this victory, Pashinyan was able to falsify the long-standing assumption that losing Karabakh means losing power. How was this possible?
September 12, 2021 -
Tatevik Hovhannisyan
Tiziano Marino
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AnalysisIssue 5 2021Magazine

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan during the June election campaign. There is little doubt that Pashinyan used the art of rhetoric brilliantly, particularly during the last election campaign. Photo: Gevorg Simonyan / Shutterstock