Oppositionist: I don`t know any other country where every fourth resident considers government traitor

ArmInfo. The proteges of  the Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan are  trying to put an end to the solution to the Artsakh problem. Hayk  Mamijanyan, head of the NA opposition "I have honor" faction,  announced at the December 26 briefing.

According to him, in the context of the surrender of Artsakh to  Azerbaijan, it is necessary to put dots and understand whose fault it  is.  According to sociological surveys, more than 25% of the  country's citizens believe that Artsakh was surrendered due to the  treacherous policy of the Armenian authorities. "Moreover, in this  case we are not talking about citizens who think so, but who publicly  declare this. In the context of arrests and sent to prison of people  even for likes on social networks, this figure looks very  respectable. "I don't know of another country in which every fourth  resident considers the government to be traitors," the MP emphasized.

People close to Ilham Aliyev are in power in Armenia, who himself has  repeatedly stated that when there was a danger of these forces coming  to power in the Republic of Armenia, he organized another aggression  against Armenia or Artsakh.

He recalled the fears of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev regarding  the possibility of revanchist forces coming to power in Armenia.

Based on this, Mamijanyan considers Pashinyan an anti-Armenian  figure. At the same time, he found it difficult to answer the  question of whether the current head of the Cabinet is a pro-Russian  or pro-Western figure. "One thing I can say for sure: Pashinyan is an  anti-Armenian figure. You can clearly see this by looking at the map  of the Republic of Armenia and the no longer existing  Nagorno-Karabakh Republic," he said.

Commenting at the request of journalists on Yerevan's relations with  Moscow, the MP recalled that back in the spring of this year, Speaker  of the RA Parliament Alen Simonyan announced that the ruling team is  the most pro-Russian government in the history of Armenia. Some time  after, Simonyan entered into a verbal duel with Spokesperson of the  Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova. Before this, there were  contradictory actions and statements by Pashinyan, who, on the one  hand, sent sappers to Syria as part of the Russian mission, and on  the other, subjected the then CSTO Secretary General Yuri Khachaturov  to criminal prosecution.

The oppositionist also stated that the protest movements of past  years did not achieve their main goal, since there were a number of  mistakes, some objective, some not. "I find it counterproductive to  speak publicly about these mistakes because I am not in the habit of  earning political dividends at the expense of my fellow fighters.  This does not suit the RPA," he said, adding that over the past 5  years there has not been a single struggle that the RPA did not join.  "But let's note that over all these years the RPA has not been an  initiator, but a supporter. Now it seems it's our turn. The  Republican Party cannot accommodate traitors and capitulators for one  simple reason. We will not be able to look into the eyes of  our  friends, relatives, family members of participants in our struggle  who are currently imprisoned as a result of this struggle -  Ashotyan's sons, Malyan's children, Aslanyan's family members, all  other friends who are political prisoners. Or how can we put up with  it when every day on the street and on Facebook we see tragedies that  hundreds of thousands of our compatriots experienced," the MP said.

Mamijanyan added that he does not specify the RPA's plans, since this  would harm the effectiveness of these programs.