Today, in a briefing with journalists after the 18th congress of the RPA, the third President of the Republic of Armenia, Serzh Sargsyan, said that it is the first time that the RPA will not participate in the parliamentary elections, stressing that he was personally inclined not to participate in the elections in 2021, but the members of the Executive Body convinced him to participate.

“In 2021, I myself was not in favor of participating in the elections, but I was against the participation not only of our forces, but also of the opposition forces in general.

I said: we will go to the elections, unfortunately, the RA governor will win, and the international community will blame our entire people for a long time, they will say: your people chose, so go and put up with it. So, it is not the first time that we are hesitating, making a new decision,” Serzh Sargsyan noted.

Serzh Sargsyan answered that there were no official negotiations.

“There have always been public proposals from our side, but you saw for yourself how long the process of expressing no confidence in the current prime minister was, how it happened.

I think a part of the opposition is to listen carefully to the authorities, to make sure that our people are categorically against the former, first of all, us. Maybe that’s why they avoided going to fight. Maybe they have other calculations, they think they can win the elections and that way is more preferable for them, because the constitutional way is to win the elections.

But I think this is not the right way, impeachment cannot be opposed to elections under any circumstances. Even if they succeed in expressing no confidence a week earlier, there will be elections on the 7th of the month. Then the elections will be much fairer, and at least all these manipulations of the pre-election stage will not affect the results of the elections,” added Serzh Sargsyan.

The third president also emphasized that all the studies talk about it, and these were the studies that made it possible to predict the elections before the 2021 elections, including the Gyumri and Etchmiadzin elections.

“If I’m not mistaken, last week the results of the elections were presented in our party, and everyone saw what opportunity and rating we had at least last week.

I think there is no doubt in anyone’s mind that the leader of the opposition today is, yes, “Strong Armenia”, and many assumptions can be made from there,” emphasized Serzh Sargsyan.

Details: in the video of 168.am

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