MP from ruling party: issue of power change cannot even be subject of discussion
ArmInfo. The ruling "Civil Contract" party in Armenia has no plans to meet with the leader of
the protest movement, Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan. Sargis Khandanyan, member of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia from the ruling political force, told reporters on May 17.
According to him, the issue of a change of power, which
representatives of the Tavush for the Motherland movement insist on,
cannot even be a subject of discussion, since the citizens of the
country in 2021, through parliamentary elections, formed a government
that can be replaced exclusively by democratic and legitimate means,
namely, through elections to be held in 2026. "Thus, neither RA Prime
Minister Nikol Pashinyan, nor the Civil Contract party, nor its
faction in the National Assembly intend to discuss the issue of a
change of power," Khandanyan said.
He added that representatives of the ruling faction often meet with
the head of government, but there were no discussions on the issue of
attitude towards the Tavush for Peace movement. Khandanyan noted that
it has been four years since the opposition, with the same faces but
with different leaders, has been trying to generate some kind of
processes within the country against the backdrop of spring
temperature improvement, and every time it fails, because there is no
political logic and no suitable alternative proposal for the
country's citizens. At the same time, the ruling force clearly
understands the existing problems, including those related to
security, and ways to solve them.
On May 17, participants of the "Tavush for the Motherland" movement
are heading to the Yerevan State University, where the leader of the
movement, Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan, is going to hold an open
lesson. On the way to Yerevan State University, Galstanyan, answering
the journalists' question whether there were proposals to meet with
members of the ruling power, answered that there were none.