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Republican Party of Armenia VP Says "Street Struggle" Against Pashinyan Government Will Continue

Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) VP Armen Ashotyan, at a meeting today with reporters in Yerevan, said the opposition in Armenia woud continue to oppose the reelected Pashinyan government and would take their struggle to the streets.

The former MP and Minister of Education said the June 20 election results will not resolve the ongoing domestic crisis and will usher in “another round of hell for Armenia and Artsakh.”

The HHK and the Homeland Party formed the “I Have Honor” bloc which came in a distant third in the June 20 snap parliamentary election, garnering 5.2% of the total vote.

While this is less than the 7% threshold needed for blocs/alliances to enter the new parliament, the “I Have Honor” bloc will get seven seats in the legislature since the law requires a minimum of three parties/blocs. Pashinyan’s Civil Contract Party will get 71 seats and Robert Kocharyan’s Armenia Bloc, 29.

Ashotyan said it was clear as far back as last December that Pashinyan would give away everything demanded by Azerbaijan and Turkey and hand over the remaining territories of Armenia and Artsakh to Russian defenders.

He claimed that the international community reached a consensus that tensions in Armenia should be resolved by the ballot, not street protests.

"The world needed these elections, but not Armenia. The world wanted to try to have a government that renewed its mandate of legitimacy to neutralize the agitated place that Armenia had turned into for further regional developments," Ashotyan said.

Ashotyan said while enough votes weren’t cast to overthrow Pashinyan (whom he described as a “traitorous capitulant”), enough were collected “to turn his life into a hell with all its manifestations, especially political.”

The HHK official ridiculed the lack of a foreign minister for more than a month and warned of the dire consequences this could have.

“You say we do not have a foreign ministry, as if we have everything else. We do not have an army. We do not have a defense ministry.  We do not have a government, we do not have a leader, we do not have an intellectual elite The same applies to the issue of prisoners of war. It’s a forgotten for them. Yesterday our boys were tried in a Baku court. Not one peep from them,” Ashotyan said referring to the current government.

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