ArmInfo. The ruling "Civil Contract" party in Armenia has no plans to meet with the leader of the protest movement, Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan. Sargis Khandanyan, member of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia from the ruling political force, told reporters on May 17.
According to him, the issue of a change of power, which representatives of the Tavush for the Motherland movement insist on, cannot even be a subject of discussion, since the citizens of the country in 2021, through parliamentary elections, formed a government that can be replaced exclusively by democratic and legitimate means, namely, through elections to be held in 2026. "Thus, neither RA Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, nor the Civil Contract party, nor its faction in the National Assembly intend to discuss the issue of a change of power," Khandanyan said.
He added that representatives of the ruling faction often meet with the head of government, but there were no discussions on the issue of attitude towards the Tavush for Peace movement. Khandanyan noted that it has been four years since the opposition, with the same faces but with different leaders, has been trying to generate some kind of processes within the country against the backdrop of spring temperature improvement, and every time it fails, because there is no political logic and no suitable alternative proposal for the country's citizens. At the same time, the ruling force clearly understands the existing problems, including those related to security, and ways to solve them.
On May 17, participants of the "Tavush for the Motherland" movement are heading to the Yerevan State University, where the leader of the movement, Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan, is going to hold an open lesson. On the way to Yerevan State University, Galstanyan, answering the journalists' question whether there were proposals to meet with members of the ruling power, answered that there were none.