ArmInfo. Nikol Pashinyan's visit to Syunik was not pre-election, but was connected with some changes that he had not yet managed to implement in favor of Azerbaijan.
Vazgen Manukyan, the candidate for the post of Prime Minister from the Movement for Saving the Motherland, said this in an interview with journalists in front of the government dachas at night. "He was scaring people with war. I have the impression that he did not stop the war so that people would be afraid of the war. He must be driven away at all costs. Armenia has no future with this leader. I said that if the occupation of Artsakh was a matter of prestige for Azerbaijan, then Syunik is a strategic issue for it. Syunik worries our neighbors, Iran and China more than the issue of Artsakh. For almost 3 years of his rule, he did not bring any benefit to Armenia, only to Azerbaijan, " Vazgen Manukyan said.
Answering the question about the possible detention of the heads of communities of Syunik region, Manukyan said that such a meeting of Pashinyan is a natural anger of the people, and not an organized action. <If he tries to detain people, he will get an answer in Yerevan. I would not have thought that such a person could be a leader in Armenia or in any other country. We haven't had such a leader in millennia. The traitor is not changed by the elections, he is removed by force, " he said.
It should be noted that it is reported that the mayor of Meghri, Mkhitar Zakaryan, has been summoned to the law enforcement agencies. According to Zakaryan's lawyer Gayane Papoyan, first her client was called to the Meghri police station, then they were told that they had to come to Kapan, and in the end it turned out that they would be taken to Yerevan. It should be noted that a criminal case for hooliganism has been opened in connection with the protests in the Syunik region of the Republic of Armenia against the background of the visit of Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan to the region. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said on April 21 that violators of the law in Meghri should be severely punished. "What happened in Meghri, I am sure, is a violation of the law. And I hope that the law enforcement authorities of the republic will respond to this in a very clear and tough form, because we cannot allow a small group of people to create an impression: that is, regardless of the impression, we cannot allow the existence of an atmosphere of impunity in the republic. Mr. Abazyan and Mr. Ghazaryan, I hope that you will resolve this issue by special and drastic actions and those responsible will be brought to justice in a form that is visible to the public, " Pashinyan said.