The “Sasna Trees” party demanded an explanation from the Acting Prime Minister of Armenia, Nikol Pashinyan, regarding the latter’s statement yesterday.

“On November 26, within the framework of the RA NA election campaign, during the rally held in Artik city, Acting Prime Minister of the RA, candidate for the RA NA, leader of the “My Step” bloc, Nikol Pashinyan, in his statement addressed to the representatives of the “Sasna Trees” pan-Armenian party, made baseless claims, used threats and expressions with offensive connotations.

Such a statement by Mr. Pashinyan is very puzzling to us, so we hope that he will clarify his words at the first opportunity.

Until then, we reaffirm our support for the revolution and its goals and continue to assert that, in our belief, the conditions of the current elections, the challenges facing our nation and the state, and the trends of socio-political developments caused by them will lead to the need for new extraordinary elections in approximately one and a half to two years.

Based on that belief, we have proposed an appropriate pre-election program, which also contains a proposal to adopt a new Constitution and a new Electoral Code and a new law on Parties, in order to reach the new special elections in a prepared and ready state and, in parallel, to solve the problems that are still standing in the way of our nation and state.

At the same time, we express our loyalty to the absolute truth that the mission of political forces is to propose ideas and views, but the people decide and the people will decide what we all do.

Using this opportunity, we urge the representatives of the force that led the revolution, as well as all the forces that contributed to the revolution and did not act against the people, to refrain from the tactics of attacking each other and to have as a common goal the imperative of forming a National Assembly that was part of the former criminal regime and free from the criminal oligarchy.”

To remind, yesterday Nikol Pashinyan, in response to Varuzhan Avetisyan’s statement that this National Assembly is transitional and there will be new extraordinary elections, said:

“Have you really decided that you are given the right to decide the size of the parliament and sometimes even people’s lives? I tell you, don’t suddenly get upset, this is not the weak and feeble government of Serzh Sargsyan for you.”