Surens Papikyan: We Have Not Received a Public Demand for Snap Elections, the Only Demand is Not to Resign

The Bright Armenia Party, the LHK, and the extra-parliamentary opposition believe that by refusing to hold snap parliamentary elections, Nikol Pashinyan is pushing the public towards unconstitutional processes. Ishkhan Sagatelyan added that "the person glued to the chair has realized that he has no chance of being re-elected through elections." In response to this question during the Freedom Facebook press conference, the Minister of Territorial Administration and Infrastructure Suren Papikyan stated, "The agenda of the ‘My Step’ alliance and Nikol Pashinyan has never included a plan for re-election. This does not correspond to our essence at all; it may stem from the agenda of one of the mentioned political forces, or they have a similar past. We do not have such a past and do not wish to be like that."

S. Papikyan noted that the My Step party and government leader Nikol Pashinyan spoke at the end of December about moving towards public consensus through snap elections, whereas their partners did not respond to this or answered negatively. "We have not received a public demand for snap elections; the only demand we have received from the public is not to resign and to do what we have not done in the past two and a half years," said Papikyan.