YEREVAN, ARMENIA – Ishkhan Saghatelyan, Vice President of Parliament and representative of the ARF Supreme Body of Armenia told NEWS.am that “the authorities [Pashinyan’s government] were not the ones that gave us the mandates, so they can not take them away, the mandate was given to us by the Armenian people; 270 thousand citizens voted for the ‘Armenia’ block with a certain goal and agenda.”
He noted that a primary messages during their campaign was to remove this evil government of evil lead the country out of the current crisis, prevent the expulsion of Armenians from Artsakh, build a strong Armenia, and construct a dignified peace.
“We serve the agenda of those citizens of Armenia who gave us the mandate to do so. Today, the agendas of the parliamentary government and the opposition do not overlap. We said that we would go to parliament exclusively with our agenda. And we did, and the authorities ran away. Tomorrow, if we need to go to parliament again with this agenda, the authorities will run away again because they have nothing to say,” added Saghatelyan.
“We know what we are fighting for and we know that we will not be ashamed to look our children in the eye. But they don’t have the answer to that question,” stated Saghatelyan, referring to Pashinyan and his party.
“The mandate [parliamentary seats] remain just a tool for our struggle. If the authorities want to take it away from us, then let them. It will have no effect on our struggle. If they see it as a tool to blackmail us in order to take us to the Parliament and then speculate with that, then they made a mistake in their calculations”, said Saghatelyan.
Earlier it was reported that the ruling Civil Contract party in Armenia was discussing the issue of depriving opposition deputies of their mandates.
