ArmInfo. Ishkhan Saghatelyan, coordinator of the Movement to Save the Motherland, representative of the ARF Dashnaktsutyun Supreme Body, named three reasons why the Armenian authorities decided to abandon the idea of holding early parliamentary elections.
For example, Saghatelyan, on his Facebook page, expressed his conviction that the first reason is that a person clinging to the prime minister's chair has realized that he has no chance to reproduce himself through elections, since this is simply impossible. "Secondly, the same person realized that if he follows this path, then he will have serious problems with his own team, since most of the" backpacks "who accidentally ended up in parliament feel the danger of irrevocably losing their mandate, and thirdly, they they think that the Movement has "blown away", and if they distract the attention of society a little more with their false agendas, then what they have done will be digested, passed and will be forgotten, "said the coordinator of the Movement to Save the Motherland.
In this regard, Saghatelyan assured that the ruling force had seriously miscalculated in its calculations, since populist traitors can deceive their people once, the second will not work, and those citizens who thought to get rid of this power through elections will take to the streets.
Dashnaktsakan announced the next rally. According to him, it will be held on February 20 at Freedom Square.
In conclusion, Saghatelyan stressed that the opposition, both parliamentary and non-Palestinian forces, never opposed the holding of early elections, but on the contrary emphasized their imperative, and even presented a roadmap for their implementation by forming an interim government to bring the country out of the crisis and organizing electoral processes within a year.
In turn, the secretary of the opposition parliamentary faction of the "Prosperous Armenia" party Arman Abovyan, on his Facebook page, responding to the authorities' statement about the absence of a public demand to hold early parliamentary elections, in particular, noted: "I would like to remind that the parliamentary opposition represented by the" Prosperous Armenia "and its leader Gagik Tsarukyan agreed to discuss with Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan only the conditions for holding early parliamentary elections and the remaining issues (under the current government), rightly demanding that Pashinyan leave without any political bargaining. Tsarukyan himself has repeatedly stated that that in Armenia there is no alternative to changing the cabinet of ministers, and that early elections should be held only after Pashinyan leaves. So stop lying, it will not help you prolong the political life of your power. Pashinyan's government is again trying to lie mediocre, or rather lie and do not even blush, " - stressed Abovyan.
The day before, the press service of the ruling faction "My Step", after a meeting with the Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan, announced that there was no public demand for holding early elections in the Republic.
"Following the meeting, it was stated that the proposal of the Prime Minister to hold early parliamentary elections did not receive a positive response from the parliamentary opposition. Moreover, the general population does not demand early elections, the" My Step "faction continues to support the Prime Minister and the government in the implementation of the roadmap presented on November 18, "the faction said.