Vardan Oskanyan writes: “If you still have any doubt that trusting Pashinyan to lead Armenia for the third time, who has already brought it to the most unfavorable position in this complex region, could seriously endanger Armenia’s existence, just try to read the analyzes of regional developments. Without that, of course, there are dozens of undeniable and well-founded reasons to make it clear that Pashinyan should leave on June 7.

Starting from breaking the negotiations with Azerbaijan and inciting a war, from losing it catastrophically, to the complete emptying and loss of Nagorno Karabakh. Add to this the continuous disruption of Armenia’s territorial integrity, as Azerbaijan still occupies and may still occupy different parts of the country, as well as the disruption of the Constitution, the delegitimization of the judicial system, and the consistent restriction of civil rights and freedom of speech.

Among Pashinyan’s “achievements” are the deep division of society, turning the state system into a joke, abuse of the budget, pressures on the Armenian Apostolic Church, growing alienation of the diaspora, and in the background of all this, the decline of Armenia’s reputation. The list can be continued for a long time.

But especially today, when a war is unfolding in Iran, in Armenia’s immediate neighborhood, and now in the entire Middle East, one more weighty reason is added for Pashinyan to leave.

Whatever the outcome of this war, the region will not be the same by June 8. The attitude and expectations of the involved players towards the countries of this region will not be the same either. Very difficult times await us. And Pashinyan has clearly shown that he is not the person who can lead Armenia even in much more stable and calm times, such as 2018-2020.

Over the past eight years, he has shown profound ignorance and incompetence in almost every area. We made a mistake in 2018 by entrusting the leadership of the country to him. We made the second mistake by reproducing him in 2021. We have no right to make the third mistake.

Pashinyan must leave on June 7. The case of the head of Armenia, in the situation created by his own cause and in a complex region independent of him, is not his own. As experience has shown, it never happened.”

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