Armenian media: West demands PM Pashinyan to hold early elections

According to the Armenian newspaper Hraparak, the West demands from Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan to hold early elections.

“Information is circulating in official circles that the demand for early parliamentary elections in Armenia has also been ‘rejected’ from the West,” Caliber.Az quotes the report as saying.

“It was previously said that during one of the narrow party meetings, Nikol Pashinyan, albeit fleetingly, touched on a pressing topic, without ruling out the possibility of holding elections next year. Pashinyan understands that time is working against the authorities. On the one hand, Pashinyan’s party is increasingly discredited, on the other hand, the likelihood of the formation of a new opposition force is increasing, so he decided to take the oppositionists by surprise.

It turns out that the West, in turn, demands from Pashinyan an ‘oath of allegiance’, that Armenia must quickly break away from Russia and rush to Europe. Instead of Pashinyan’s assurances, the West expects that through new elections an anti-Russian parliament will be formed, in which Aram Sargsyan (chairman of the Republic party - ed.) and other pro-Westerners will definitely be present, and today’s parliamentary opposition, openly pro-Russian, will go home,” the report says.