What are you doing? are you abnormal, think soberly, don’t go crazy. two

The pre-election campaign for the National Assembly elections in Armenia takes place in an atmosphere of fear and repression, which has nothing to do with democracy. About this 168 TVof Revue announced on the air of the program Aram Manukyan, vice-chairman of the Armenian National Congress (ANC) party, candidate for the National Assembly deputy on the ANC electoral listtelling about the ANC campaign.

The ANC vice president is more worried not only about the atmosphere in the country and the targeting of opponents of the current government, but also about external interference in the Armenian election process, including the visit of the US Secretary of State Marco Rubio to Armenia tomorrow.

Aram Manukyan believes that the Armenian authorities, instead of rejecting all external influences and interventions, are deliberately turning Armenia into a theater of geopolitical clashes in the context of the EU-Russia and USA-Russia confrontation during this pre-election period. He emphasized that choice and free will is the monopoly of the RA citizen, his imperative right, and all foreign interventions should be equally rejected, be it Macron, Rubio, Erdogan, Aliyev, Putin or Medvedev.

According to the ANC vice-president, the only task of the Armenian authorities should be to protect Armenia from external pressures and not pay tribute to the support or proposals of any party.

«In that sense, we are vulnerable. we have left unanswered the reactions, opinions of Azerbaijan, Turkey, the United States, the European Union and Russia, or, if you want to know, meddling in internal affairs, in the sense of expressing an open opinion in the Armenian elections. No one has that right.

The RA citizen should decide for himself who to vote for, and the RA authorities do not react to it at all, and this is worrying to the extent that it can become a serious source of escalation. it will open wide opportunities for escalation in Armenia, and we are slowly approaching the Ukrainian scenario, and Rubio’s arrival, Macron’s arrival and Russia’s statements, Russia’s steps to impose economic sanctions on Armenia, step by step, drop by drop, bring us closer to the conflict. The East and the West are not interested in the election of an RA citizen, they are interested in moving their conflict from Ukraine to Armenia and creating a new hotbed for the Russia-EU or Russia-West conflict.»։

Based on all this, Aram Manukyan calls on the people to reject all external interventions without exception. “Dear people, vote for whoever you want. Don’t look at who is saying what. Vote for Armenia, vote for Armenia’s independence.”

Speaking about the adventurous calls of the current rulers and their propagandists to go to an open confrontation with Russia, Aram Manukyan emphasizes that his criticism should not be perceived as flattery towards Russia, but as realism in the sense that an economic confrontation with Russia does not promise anything good for Armenia, considering the incomparably large economic weight of the Russian Federation and finally, the fact that this country is a nuclear superpower.

Aram Manukyan appealed to the authorities of Armenia. “What are you doing? In other words, do you agree that the Russian political discourse and the American and European discourse collide in Armenia? Don’t you think that these clashes can lead to serious escalations, and if we entered the stage of clashes, do you think that Ukraine entered the stage with one decision? It went step by step, the conflict escalated, and now the whole world is trying to back down, stop it, but it doesn’t work.

An entire powerful Ukraine is being destroyed, the country with 45 million inhabitants, the largest area in Europe, is being destroyed. The two Slavic nations have made each other, two fraternal, friendly, neighboring, same-language, same-religious nations have made each other and they are not able to get out of this conflict.

Can you imagine what will happen to Armenia if it suddenly finds itself in the focus of that conflict? I apologize to the people of Ukraine, but as a result of the policies of the abnormal leadership of Ukraine, who is suffering today, except the people of Ukraine? I’m not scaring you, I’m just saying: think soberly, think sensibly, don’t go to bloodshed, madness… “As long as our relations with the European Union do not conflict with our being there, we will be there, as long as I am here, I will not go there…”

What puns are you playing? You can’t talk to superpowers like that. We do not have that power. I say the same thing: you can’t play with the European Union, the United States, you can’t make demarches, blackmail, or bribe. The same with Iran»։

Aram Manukyan considers the calls of CP propagandists to boycott Russian products as judgments at the kindergarten level.

“Declare that ‘well, we will also boycott Russian vodka.’ What about you… was Russia filled with your statement? Are you abnormal, what is it? In other words, do we have a problem of ambition, to scare Russia or America, or is it the task of the state to regulate relations with them as well? What kind of childishness is this, what kind of madness is this, to invite two superpowers to clash in Armenia? I always give this example: Russia has 6,000 nuclear warheads, and America has 6,000. Will a smart country enter into that situation?’

Aram Manukyan also commented on Nikol Pashinyan’s recent famous statements and threats. “Don’t you have another way to break Armenia?” Why do you contrast Ararat and Aragats? Is that your problem today? Do you want to lead the country through controversy? You pit them all against each other: “black and white”, “I will destroy”, “I will arrest”, “I will kill”, “I will dismember”. it’s a shame, it’s a shame. This is not the chosen one of this nation, this is the indicator of the scum of this nation, which they have lifted up and are showing our weak state to the whole world.”

The predictions of ANC Vice President Aram Manukyan that as a result of Nikol Pashinyan’s “madness” or as a result of external interventions and geopolitical conflicts, the situation in Armenia may be “upside down” are even more worrying.

“Any day, as a result of any of Nicol’s madness or the arrival of Rubio, as a result of Russia’s actions, something may change upside down in Armenia, and we should go to the elections expecting that there will be drastic changes. Unexpected things will happen, and Armenia is not a stable country to decide how the elections will end with “exit polls” or preliminary calculations, Aram Manukyan predicts.

Full interview in the video.

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