Opposition MP on Armenian premier: impeachment only way out 

ArmInfo.  Secretary of the "I have the honor" faction of the National Assembly of Armenia Tigran Abrahamyan calls the expression of no confidence in the current Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan the only way out of the domestic political impasse.

"The strength of Pashinyan's rule is chaos, political desolation and  lack of content, and he will constantly try to transfer processes in  this direction.

It is very difficult to resist him and win in this field, because he  has no principles and "brakes", Abrahamyan wrote on his Facebook  page.

In this regard, at this stage, the representative of "I have the  honor" calls for a socio-political consensus and solidarity based on  an agenda, program and hard work.

"At this stage, the Republican Party of Armenia is considering all  this within the framework of expressing no confidence in the  government, which means that other players on the field have two  options: either start political discussions around this with the  imperative of consolidation, or offer another internal opposition  agenda.

The third option is to wait, get exhausted and disintegrate, paving  the way for the re-election of the current ruler," he summed up.

Recall that on June 7, the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (RPA)  under the 3rd President of the Republic of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan,  represented by the opposition faction "I have the honor" of the  National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia (6 NA deputies), as part  of the impeachment process, nominated the head of the Masis community  of the Ararat region, member of the RPA Council David Hambardzumyan  as a candidate for the post of Prime Minister.

The opposition faction "Hayastan" stated that they are ready to  provide 28 signatures if, in addition to signing the relevant form,  they begin a parallel street struggle. "So that we can record the  result, and not a document with 34 signatures, which we have had for  the past 4 years. Therefore, we have proposed our colleagues (from "I  have the honor") to concentrate their efforts to collect the required  number of signatures," - said earlier the deputy of the "Hayastan"  faction, the representative of the Supreme Body of the ARF  Dashnaktsutyun Ishkhan Saghatelyan.

It should be noted that a vote of no confidence in the current prime  minister can be discussed in the National Assembly only if at least  36 deputies provide the signatures necessary to begin the process.  The two opposition factions ("Armenia" and "I have the honor")  together make up 34 deputies. Another four have independent status.  In order to express no confidence in the head of government, at least  54 out of 107 MPs must vote for impeachment.

Meanwhile, independent MP Hovik Agazaryan previously stated that he  and Hakob Aslanyan (also independent, previously a deputy from the  , like Agazaryan - ed.) will not support  Hambardzumyan's candidacy, since they also have their own candidate -  Pashinyan's former ambassador- at-large Edmon Marukyan. On June 27,  the latter announced his readiness to refuse to nominate his  candidacy in the vote of no confidence in Nikol Pashinyan in favor of  Archbishop Mikael Ajapakhyan.  However, Ajapakhyan himself, after he  found himself in the Investigative Committee building, refused to  nominate his candidacy.