Tuesday, March 2 2021 14:16

ArmInfo.Signing of a memorandum on holding extraordinary parliamentary elections, on which the authorities insist, is already a precondition. For this reason,  the opposition itself has preconditions.

On March 2, the leader of  the "Enlightened Armenia" party and the faction of the same name of  the RA National Assembly Edmon Marukyan stated this to journalists.   "After his statement with specific proposals for the elections,  nothing has changed. I am a man of my word.  with a proposal to which  no response has been received. There was only a statement by the  prime minister about some new challenges. Armenian people led by this  prime minister went to these calls and received crushing defeat. I do  not know about other calls, "he noted deputy.

He noted that RA Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan contacted him this  morning, proposing to meet to discuss the possibilities of holding  early elections. "I agreed to a meeting, I believe that tomorrow we  will discuss all the proposals," Marukyan emphasized.  He noted that  during the meeting he will demand evidence of Nikol Pashinyan's  statement, made the day before, that Chief of the General Staff Onik  Gasparyan carried out the order of the third President of the  Republic of Armenia, Serzh Sargsyan, and the publication of this  evidence.  Edmon Marukyan considered it illogical that someone could  put pressure on the army, on its general staff and on 44 high-ranking  generals and officers. "It is important that the people are convinced  of the logic of the Prime Minister's words. If he says something, he  must prove it," the deputy said.  He added that every day the country  faces the threat of clashes, and the only way to resolve the internal  political crisis is to hold early parliamentary elections. During the  upcoming meeting, there is hope that compromises will be reached. The  statement of the General Staff should be viewed as a stop signal to  the authorities, since the situation is beginning to completely  spiral out of control. The actions of the authorities against the  General Staff are aimed at decapitating the army. "I am against such  actions, but if there is evidence, let it be presented," said Edmon  Marukyan.