Armenian MP slams protests by oppositional forces

An Armenian pro-government MP has called anti-government protests a “dead end”.

“You say a turning point, Rubicon, a decisive day, a decisive stage, a breakthrough situation, dual power, the government is in a panic, the government is falling apart, and so on. Aren’t you tired, dear colleagues in the opposition, of such fruitless statements to your supporters or of misleading your followers?” Arsen Torosyan, MP from the parliamentary faction of the ruling Armenian party "Civil Contract", said according to the Armenian media, Caliber.Az reports.

“Didn’t you understand that the government formed after the parliamentary elections of 2018 and 2021, regardless of the name of the political force, can no longer be similar to the previous government in its nature, attitude towards it, the effectiveness of criticism against it? These elections expressed the real will of the voters, no matter how ‘you’ like it,” he wrote on his Facebook page.

“Haven't you realized that you, as a political force, are in a dead-end, that by such methods you will not increase either your current rating or your potential votes in the next elections? Don't you understand, dear colleagues, that your policy of identifying internal "enemies", giving these enemies different names and fighting them with means that contradict logic (flags, songs, etc.) has failed?” Torosyan questioned.

He added that “haven't you realized that the mask of your completely false, outdated, counterproductive program, which has been misleading many for decades, is now torn? When will you finally understand this...?”

“Every government and political force has mistakes and shortcomings. Sensible political forces say that they regularly appear before voters in early or regular elections if they are honest (and they have been honest for 4 years). Unwise or anti-democratic forces do not admit their mistakes, do not talk about them with voters, reject democratic tools of striving for power, and want to seize power simply without elections, which, of course, will not work. This will not work, not because we cling to power, but because democracy in Armenia should be an absolute value, no one should shake this value,” the MP concluded.