“The people are always awake, as the 44-day war has shown. It did not make sense to search for the people. They assessed the situation correctly and opened the way,” said Andranik Kocharyan, Chairman of the NA Committee on Defense and Security, speaking to journalists about the Resistance movement. According to him, the second president Robert Kocharyan avoided answering with a racketeering smile about why they did not manage to remove Nikol Pashinyan.
“We are ready to discuss the program to remove us in the National Assembly, let them come and present it.” The journalists conveyed the explanation of the opposition: their struggle was justified because the government was going to sign a document and they stopped it. Andranik Kocharyan responded, “What else should they have said? How should they have secured the retreat?”
As for the observation that the opposition managed to unite the people of Artsakh, Andranik Kocharyan said, “Are you serious about why the people of Artsakh were not united before that, were they waiting for them? Or a few people who were brought from Artsakh to take part in the “Resistance” movement on a business trip and not to register any results? Naturally, they should have registered their decision yesterday with a victory.”
Andranik Kocharyan advised the ARF to analyze and understand the actions of their senior colleagues, which they carried out in the 1990s. To the question of if he accepts that he is in power now only because Serzh Sargsyan and Robert Kocharyan demand his resignation, Andranik Kocharyan answered, “As long as Serzh Sargsyan and Robert Kocharyan are there, they cannot fill the opposition field. When the government was formed in 2018, the opposition, maybe the same age group, should have been formed.
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Now they have missed the government a lot and now they can not satisfy that longing. What can we do? If we were a healthier opposition, we would be in a very effective process. And the issue of resignation is solved by the requirements of the Constitution.”
Hripsime JEBEJYAN
