ArmInfo. There was a competition between Facebook and reality, and reality simply destroyed Facebook. the Acting Head of the Government of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan, who heads the list "My step" bloc stated in an interview with journalists on December 5,
Speaking about the course of the campaign, Pashinyan said: "We hoped that a major campaign would take place, but at the same time it was nice somewhere, it was more than we expected". At the same time, he noted that during the campaign, most often he heard from citizens' accusations against the government that the Republicans continue to boast about.
In turn, the candidate from the "We" bloc Acting Justice Minister Artak Zeynalyan complained about the lack of time to prepare for the elections: ''But, in any case, we were able to campaign and distribute the forces so that people would know about us. We were able to promote our ideas, which are based on Western value''.
The head of the list of the Sasna Tsrer party, Varuzhan Avetisyan, in turn, stated that if there is a "criminal four" on March 1, there can be no ideological and programmatic struggle on the political field of Armenia, speech. According to him, all political forces that are connected with the previous regime cannot be involved in any political processes today. <The culmination of political processes that took place under the previous regime should be reflected in <Armenian Nuremberg>. Only in this case can we talk about the possibility of developing a stable state, "said one of the leaders of Sasna Tsrer. Avetisyan said that we are talking about the Republican Party of Armenia, the Prosperous Armenia Party, the Orinats Yerkir Party and the ARF Dashnaktsutyun. "It should be borne in mind that this is not about all members of these parties, but mainly their leaders and leaders," he added.
According to him, many members of the ARF are sincere bearers of national values. "However, in essence, the leadership of the Armenian office of the party went against the principles and national ideas, against its past. These actions naturally discredit rank-and-file members of the ARF party both in Armenia and in the Diaspora", Varuzhan Avetisyan added. Speaking about the course of the election campaign, he lamented that recently there has been some passivity among the citizens in the regions. "This is explained by the fact that people, for the most part, are tired of street political struggle," Varuzhan Avetisyan said.
The representative of the Republican Party, former Deputy Minister of Defense Artak Zakaryan, in turn, said that one of the major achievements of the Republican Party of Armenia during these years was that we managed to maintain the status quo in the Karabakh issue, overcoming all sorts of difficulties. The biggest omission, however, he called the ineffectiveness of the anti-corruption program undertaken. According to Zakaryan, because of the situation as a result of omissions, people chased after populism, began to look for pleasurable statements for them, which contributed to the incident. "But this, of course, does not mean that this cabinet came to solve the social issues of these people or solve them as much as we decided them, because it was a circle of available opportunities and resources," Zakaryan said.