ArmInfo. MP from the ruling<My Step> bloc Sasun Mikayelyan, contrary to the rumors circulated, does not intend to withdraw from his mandate and he is not offended by his party. He assured about this in an interview with reporters.
He said that he was not at all offended by the fact that he had not been elected a member of the party's leadership, and did not intend to withdraw from his mandate because of this, despite the prophecies of <some activists>. "I will continue my work as an ordinary member of the party, but I don't intend to give up the mandate, because the people gave it to me on the basis of the only fair elections in Armenia for many years", Mikayelyan explained. Referring to the accusation of Kotayk governor Romanos Petrosyan in his address that he, as a MP from the region, did not support the candidate of ruling party in the election of the mayor of Abovyan, Mikayelyan did not disprove this fact: "Yes, I did not support him, but did not act against him behind the back of the party, I simply did not take part in the electoral processes at all, because I considered the current mayor of Abovyan, Vahagn Gevorgyan (member of the Prosperous Armenia Party, Ed. note), who was re-elected as a good mayor," Mikayelyan explained.
He also spoke extremely negatively about his party member, Kotayk's governor Romanos Petrosyan, saying that the failure in the Abovyan elections was precisely his <merit>: <He took too much on himself. Based on the votes that people give for us due to the inertia of the velvet revolution, he imagines himself to be an authoritative politician, and decided that he could, based solely on his "authority", hold elections. But it did not happen. We must learn from what happened, otherwise the velvet revolution will transform into a "velvet change of power", Mikayelyan forcasted.