The Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, answering the question of the head of the NA "Bright Armenia" faction Edmon Marukyan, that the former RA presidents, parliamentary and extra-parliamentary political forces, the leaders of the Armenian Church, intellectuals demand his resignation, countered: "And why don't you and the parliamentary forces demand early parliamentary elections?, why do those political forces and the representatives of the elite constantly offer scenarios that have one goal? to leave the people out of the process, moreover, irreversibly".
According to Pashinyan, the forces listed by Marukyan suggest creating anarchy or puppet power in Armenia. "They nominate a candidate for the post of Prime Minister who does not have the support of the people, who has no support in the parliament, who has no prospect of gaining the support of the people, because it is stipulated that the candidate must not run in the elections at all.
Therefore, if a change takes place in these conditions, and a prime minister is appointed who has no support, no source of legitimacy, on whom will he rely, to whom will that power belong?.
Of course, the government will belong to the forces that brought him to that status", Pashinyan said. According to him, during the year that the opposition is talking about, all possible mechanisms of election fraud will be restored.
"90% of those people who demand resignation today are people who have been demanding resignation since June 2018. Now you say war, but if you look back and remember what was before the war, you will see that the message and the composition have not changed. But my question is - why they do not demand early parliamentary elections, including you" said the Prime Minister.
