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Recent resignations among the government elite are aimed at only one thing: to create more favorable conditions for the Republican Party of Armenia and Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan in the upcoming 2012 parliamentary and 2013 presidential elections, said Heritage Party MP Armen Martirosyan, speaking to reporters at the National Assembly today.
“I find it normal; it’s a regular political process; it’s just my conviction that no matter how much they try to carry out these job transfers, during regular elections more or less, I don’t think that there’s a force in Armenia that can become the vast majority. No matter how much the Republican Party’s efforts are aimed at having 50% + 1 seats in parliament, it won’t succeed, if the elections more or less pass normally [i.e. without fraud]. As for the rest… to put it this way, you don’t need to search for complex games —conspiracy theories and so on,” he said.
Recall, following news of the resignations of Yerevan mayor Karen Karapetyan and RA Police Chief Alik Sarsgsyan, National Assembly Chair Hovik Abrahamyan declared his own intention to resign, saying he was offered the position of head of the Republican Party of Armenia’s election campaign headquarters.