During a court session on Wednesday Paruyr Hayrikyan confirmed that suspect Khachatur Poghosyan was the man who shot at him on Jan 31.
He believes that Poghosyan was going to kill him.
Poghosyan claims he just wanted to scare Hayrikyan. "Had I actually wished to kill, I would have shot at him more than once," he said.
Hayrikyan thinks otherwise: "They wanted to kill me because I could win the elections and they were scared that I would turn Armenia into a normal country."