Teammates called Hayk Marutyan a `guest performer` - Pashinyan

ArmInfo.There are forces that clearly hope that it will be possible to cause instability or a  governance crisis in Armenia in the context of the Yerevan Council of Elders elections. Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan stated  on September 11 in an interview with Public Television.   "Unfortunately, this can be seen from the emphasis and goals of a  number of forces participating in the elections," he said.

In response to the remark that these forces are dividing the  political field into three parts - pro-Western, pro-Russian and one  person, Hayk Marityan, declares that he continues the revolutionary  line, since the authorities have deviated from it, Pashinyan said:  "For me this is a strange claim and statement because I have never  heard Hayk Marutyan say that we deviated from the revolutionary path.  After leaving the post of mayor, Hayk Marutyan appeared on stage and  made just such statements. But I think that for the first time in his  stage career Hayk Marutyan is engaged in humor of the political genre  and does not coordinate its content with the objects and heroes of  this humor. This indicates that Armenia did not deviate from  revolutionary values, otherwise, as before, our partners would have  received permission in advance from the authorities, oligarchs and  others to use humor on stage>.

Pashinyan also touched upon Marutyan's assertion that corruption  still exists, which he warned about in government offices for two  years. <This is absolutely untrue, since there was never such a  conversation with Marutyan, and he should have had a similar  conversation with me, since it was my support that allowed him to  become a candidate in the elections of the mayor of Yerevan, and he  received this support from me, expressing his readiness to become a  member of the "Civil Contract" party and assured of his intention to  strengthen the team. But to this day I have not heard from him any  explanation for the fact that we have deviated from the values of the  revolution.

In addition, the prime minister noted, during the period when the  revolution took place and the ruling team did not have any problems,  in practice Hayk Marutyan did everything to be closer, sometimes  closer than the closest political team, and to record this closeness,  write a statement about joining the party. <I fully trusted his  desire to be a close teammate, contrary to our other teammates who  said that he was coming as a guest performer' , and if the situation  changed, He will act according to the old scenario. I must say that,  purely as a human being, I now find it difficult to look into the  eyes of many of my colleagues who at one time gave this warning. It  turned out that this political friendship, for which Hayk Marutyan  did everything, was a friendship for good times.  While the logic was  that real friendship is only needed to overcome the difficulties of  bad times. However, it turned out that at the first difficulty, just  as easily Hayk Marutyan entered into the "Civil Contract", he just as  easily wrote a statement about leaving it. For me, this is not so  much a political situation as a human one, and there really is a  feeling of deep regret about this situation," said Nikol Pashinyan.

The head of the Cabinet of Ministers and the Chairman of the Board of  the "Civil Contract" noted that on September 15 they plan to hold a  march and rally in which the entire political team will take part.  The Prime Minister is also scheduled to speak during the rally.