The conduct of snap parliamentary elections threatens a scenario of an emerging political monopoly in Armenia, former president Robert Kocharyan said in a recent interview.
“Tactically, such a conduct is absolutely understandable i.e. – to achieve success now that you are at the peak of democracy. Strategically though, I do see a problem. While you, as a political figure, gain certain benefits, you have to demonstrate a statesman’s conduct when it comes to thinking whether it was worthing doing that now,” he told the Russian news agency RIA Novosti.
The second president said he has “strong doubts” about the success of forming an adequate parliament “in the current state of euphoria”.
In his words, “a full authority implies also a full responsibility.”
Kocharyan described Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s resignation (followed by the resignation of his cabinet) as a moment of restart allowing for a new government’s formation “to reflect the dominating public sentiments”.