YEREVAN, December 21. /ARKA/. Armenia’s social, economic and political problems can be solved only after the resignation of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and his government, the leader of the opposition Prosperous Armenia party Gagik Tsarukyan said at a rally in Yerevan on Saturday.
He accused the authorities of lying to the people from the first day and having failed all initiatives designed to improve people’s life and ruining the country’s all friendly ties.
“They did so deliberately. When in June I announced about the threat of an imminent war, it was still possible to stop it. The current government of Pashinyan is not able to do anything, it has just failed everything,” Tsarukyan claimed.
In his words, today the fate of Armenia can develop in the same way as the situation in the war, if the current authorities remain at the helm.
“Everything is dead and ruined; there is no economy and no government. Today people are left without support, the heads of communities in Syunik (the region bordering Azerbaijan in the south of Armenia – ed.) are looking for people to keep the borders, but they are alone. Today Pashinyan and his government want a Syunik without people, and they lie to the parents of the missing soldiers and prisoners of war, playing for time to freeze the situation. But the blood will not freeze and become water,” Tsarukyan said.
He stressed that the prime minister must resign, since no one in the world wants to work with him, and the sooner he does this, the better for the country and the economy.
“Our currency, the dram is being devalued, prices are going up, benefits and salaries are not going up. The sooner Pashinyan leaves, the faster the problems will be resolved. There are many social, economic and political problems that need to be solved and this will become possible only with the departure of the current authorities,’ Tsarukyan said.
Many Armenians demand that Pashinyan steps down because of a statement which he signed November 9 with the leaders of Russia and Azerbaijan to stop the war in Nagorno-Karabakh. Under the statement, Armenia has returned all seven districts adjacent to Nagorno-Karabakh back to Azerbaijan. The latter also took control of parts of the Karabakh’s territory lost by Armenian forces in a war that lasted 44 days.