Armenia`s premier carrying out his commitment to enemy - Hayaque

ArmInfo.  RA Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan is directly fulfilling the commitment he made to the enemy. This is stated in a statement by the civil initiative  "Hayaque" ("Armenian Referendum").

"He wants to show that he can allegedly keep the church under his  control, to ensure that the Artsakh issue does not have practical  consequences, especially in international discussions. This is  precisely what his immoral agenda of replacing the Catholicos of All  Armenians Garegin II is aimed at," the statement by the initiative  says.

At the same time, as noted in the statement, Pashinyan is solving  another problem - creating a political conflict, in which he again  begins to present himself as the defender of the interests of the  people. "He uses concepts such as, for example, 'let's return the  church to the people.' If earlier the devil was the 'former' with  whom he fought, now he wants to present the Armenian Apostolic  Church, with whom he fights, as the devil. In this way, he is also  trying to resolve the issue of his electorate," the statement says.

For a long time now, RA Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has not  stopped targeting the Armenian Apostolic Church. First, at a  government meeting, he compared Armenian churches to closets. Then  came his statements on social networks, where the Armenian prime  minister used rude language towards the hierarchs of the AAC and  accused one of the archbishops of sexual promiscuity. At the same  time, the prime minister demanded that all priests who violated their  vow of celibacy be defrocked. Similar attacks were made by the prime  minister's wife, Anna Hakobyan, who called the patriarch "the main  mafioso." These statements provoked a sharp reaction from the clergy.

Amid the scandal, Pyashinyan called for "effective steps" that will  lead to the replacement of the Catholicos of All Armenians Garegin II  and announced the creation of a special coordination group for the  "liberation of the Residence of the Mother See of Etchmiadzin" and  the settlement of organizational issues for holding new elections of  the Catholicos. Pashinyan specified that followers of the AAC can  become members of the Coordination Group. At the same time, the Prime  Minister intends to choose the first 10 members of the Coordination  Group himself.