After the elections, your team continues to be “hunting down the former regime,” as well as mass lay-offs and vendettas, as Pashinyan said. Does that please you? Aravot Daily asked this to My Step deputy Hovik Aghazaryan. He responded, “But where is it? Where is it?” We listed, for example, how an ARF member of the Aragatsotn Provincial Administration was called in and given 15 minutes. Several community leaders have already resigned. Aghazaryan responded, “If during the pre-election period… if their activities did not fall under what was outlined by the law, then they should decide. What are you talking about?”
Upon the observation that Nikol Pashinyan said, “We will strike their empty heads with a hammer,” which is a call to violence not outlined by the law, Aghazaryan commented, “Do you take that literally? We understand it figuratively. In other words, everyone will be held responsible without exception. At the same time, Pashinyan also said that we will cut their hands off. Do you imagine Nikol Pashinyan taking a saw and cutting someone’s hands-off? Is that what you think?”
We said that anything is possible because we have even seen people thrown on the asphalt. Aghazaryan said, “No, that is not possible. And second, in honor of our people, we successfully overcame those difficulties. What remains is to continue on that path. Because all the rumors about pre-election clashes did not take place in honor of our people and the opposition.”
Hripsime Jebejyan
