Prime Minister: Upcoming parliamentary elections in Armenia are an  exceptional opportunity for the people to oust the "former" from  political life

ArmInfo. The upcoming parliamentary elections in Armenia are an exceptional opportunity for the people to oust the "former" from political life, as stated by the RA Prime Minister, Nikol Pashinyan, to reporters  on April 23.

During a briefing, he sharply criticized the country's former  leaders. According to Pashinyan, the first president of the Republic  of Armenia, Levon Ter-Petrosyan, is a true representative of the ARF  Dashnaktsutyun party. In any case, Pashinyan continued, the political  force led by Ter-Petrosyan, the Armenian National Congress, has no  chance in these elections. Certain forces seek a " revanchist"  comeback by restoring the coalition consisting of the ARF, the  Prosperous Armenia Party, and the Republican Party of Armenia.  Against this backdrop, the statement by Serzh Sargsyan, the third  president of the Republic of Armenia and leader of the Republican  Party of Armenia, about not participating in the electoral process is  a "false thesis". In the previous elections, Sargsyan participated as  part of the "With Honor" bloc, and in these elections, as part of the  "Strong Armenia" bloc of parties. He added that Sargsyan has publicly  expressed his support for Strong Armenia and the entire leadership of  the Republican Party of Armenia, including deputy head Ashotyan, has  participated in that political party's rallies.

Pashinyan emphasized that the "three-headed war party" justifies its  status every day. He emphasized that one of these parties is trying  to distance itself from such rhetoric, but is unable to do given its  proportional candidate list. "These people talk about the return of  Karabakh every day. Yet, not a single  son of those who are "tearing  their shirts" off for Karabakh  ever served there or participated in  any military action," Pashinyan assured. He reiterated that the  Karabakh movement had led Armenia into a "dead end" from which there  was no escape, and that the entire period since 1994 was merely a  pretext for delaying the active phase of the war, which never truly  ended but continued with varying intensity.

He stated that the second and third presidents of Armenia had  "brazenly lied" about the Karabakh movement serving Armenia and the  Armenian people. "It served those who want Armenia to never emerge  from of its "victim image". I am proud that our country is getting  out of this trap, yes, at the cost of sacrifice, but it is getting  out," Nikol Pashinyan concluded.