ArmInfo. For a number of reasons, the city of Alaverdi is considered the stronghold of the Republican Party of Armenia. About this was declared by the Acting Prime Minister and the first number of the My Step block list Nikol Pashinyan, speaking at the pre-election rally in Alaverdi.
According to him, this is due to the fact that the Vice-Speaker of the Parliament, the deputy candidate of the Republican Party of Armenia Eduard Sharmazanov and the former governor of Lori, Arthur Nalbandian, hail from Alaverdi. "This is not a question of personalities, I have no personal problems with these people. The dignity and rights of every citizen should be protected. Today, residents of the village of Metz Guys told me that if they allowed, they would vote. I was in shock. The old system is already it does not work, but people think the old way. We must get rid of this old thought in our thoughts, "said Pashinyan.
"We will not go this way. Even if you make the worst choice, we will obey your decisions. But I hope that you throw away corrupt Republicans in the trash and don't give them even one vote," he said. In turn, meeting on November 27 with voters in the Yerevan hotel "Dvin", the vice-chairman of the RPA, the pre-election coordinator
The campaign of the party Armen Ashotyan called on Nikol Pashinyan not to frighten the RPA. "There is a person who occasionally becomes ill, he threatens us with a finger, voices calls for eradication. Dear, do not try to intimidate the Republican Party of Armenia, the people behind us are not fearful," Ashotyan said. According to him, the RPA was not afraid of the Soviet GULAG, and from the very first days of the Artsakh war she was not afraid to dig trenches, she was not afraid responsibility from the very first year of the restoration of Armenian statehood. "We will not be afraid of you either," said Ashotyan, addressing Pashinyan. He noted that one woman sent him a letter in which she admitted that at first she simply hated him, but eventually she realized that the Republicans were normal people, and having noticed that until the RPA lost power, we did not understand. According to him, on the way to building a state, the party will take into account the lessons of the past.