Politician: Kocharyan and Sargsyan helped Pashinyan to gain 54%

ArmInfo. If during the election campaign the Hayastan and I Have the Honor blocs refrained from aggressive and threatening rhetoric, the Civil Contract would receive  no more than 42-45% of the vote. The chairman of the   party, former prime minister of Armenia Aram Sargsyan expressed a  similar opinion to ArmInfo.

"These figures are well known to Nikol Pashinyan himself and his  party. Since they were highlighted as a result of the polls conducted  by the ruling party during this period. It was the aggressive  rhetoric of Pashinyan's opponents that part of our society did not  like, providing Pashinyan with 54% of the votes. In turn, Serzh  Sargsyan and Robert Kocharyan have already become convinced that by  adhering exclusively to political rhetoric before the early  elections, especially during the pre-election campaign, their forces  could have registered much better results as a result of  the  elections, "he stressed.  Thus, it was Kocharyan and Sargsyan who  helped Pashinyan once again to secure a political majority in  parliament, in the politician's opinion, and not he, who represents a  political force with completely different views and approaches and in  no way shares many of the approaches of the current government. At  the same time, he noted that all three forces represented in the  National Assembly today were in power before and are in power today.  It is these three forces that have built with Russia the relations  that Armenia has today and, accordingly, they are also responsible  for the current situation in the country, which is very far from  normal.

While not in any way a supporter of hostile relations with Moscow,  Sargsyan stressed that Russia has considerable influence in the  region and will try to preserve it. In his opinion, Armenia needs to  make reciprocal steps in the direction of approaches, according to  which Yerevan and Moscow have common interests. Another issue is that  in the direction of approaches that do not have these common  interests, Armenia needs to try to diversify relations with Russia.

"Today there are a number of factors that allow us to confidently  assert that any trilateral document with Russia and Azerbaijan is a  trap for Armenia. And in this my opinion categorically does not  coincide with the opinion of all three parliamentary forces. The  document of November 9 essentially does not work and does not work to  the detriment of Armenia. And Moscow does absolutely nothing to make  it work.  Moreover, it does not fulfill the role of arbiter assigned  to it by this document. At the same time, this document is in no way  a document on Armenia's surrender. That is why Aliyev twitches at  every mention of arms supplies to Armenia. Aliyev is afraid of  revenge, because he understands very well that such a possibility  remains and may well be used in the formation of an appropriate  geopolitical background, "the politician summed up