Former Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanian issues a press release today stating that he is leaving the Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) because it wasn’t able to achieve fundamental changes to the country’s political system.

After leaving the post of foreign minister in 2008, Oskanian then joined the BHK founded by businessman Gagik Tsarukyan.

“I cease my membership in the BHK knowing full well my responsibility in its failure,” Oskanian’s statement reads.

Oskanian isn’t the first member of the BHK to quit the party in recent weeks after President Sargsyan launched a personal attack against Tsarukyan and initiating a number of measures designed to weaken the position of both Tsarukyan and, by extension, the party.

“Those who are gloating over the situation the party now faces must first be concerned about the political shape of the country. Here, at issue isn’t the BHK but rather the measures recently taken against it and its leader,” Oskanian writes.

Oskanian goes on to say that these repressive measures have broken the hope of the people for fundamental change and that this could lead to tragic consequences.

He had been serving as an MP of the BHK, the second largest party in the parliament after the Republican Party, since May 2012.