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The well-known and resounding high-level personnel changes within Armenia’s political leadership have only one goal — to strengthen the current tyrant’s position, said commander of the Shushi battalion in the Nagorno-Karabakh War and one of the founders of the Sardarapat civic movement Jirayr Sefilian, speaking to reporters in Yerevan today.
“They’re trying to show that there’s a struggle, that supposedly BHK [Prosperous Armenia party] is opposed to the HHK [Republican Party of Armenia]. This performance, unfortunately, we regularly see from election to election. This time our people are also forced to witness this entire theatrical performance. These disagreements are completely false; everything is decided beforehand at the upper echelons,” he said.
The activist advised HHK and BHK members not to take this “feigned struggle” so seriously and to try as much as possible to stay out of the tense situation and “not become a toy in some oligarch’s hand.”
Sefilian recalled that ahead of the 2007 parliamentary elections, there were explosions outside warring political parties’ headquarters, and he doesn’t rule out the possibility that similar incidents, which will be organized by the “current regime,” will repeat ahead of these elections.
Speaking on behalf of Sardarapat, he said that they won’t be participating in the 2012 parliamentary elections, while those who do participate will be complicit in the current administration. Sefilian believes that the results of the upcoming elections have already been determined.
“Our country is occupied by a group of people, and to expect elections in an occupied regime is unacceptable — people are participating in elections, but those counting the ballots are thieves and swindlers, there is no independent [free and fair] court and under these conditions, Sardarapat doesn’t expect that normal elections are possible,” he said, adding that the elections will have one “director” and this will be Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan.