Armenian Education Minister Armen Ashotyan commented on ARF Dashnaktsutyun’s proposal to shift to parliamentary system of government. The statements followed a similar proposal by Prosperous Armenia.

Dwelling on the two parties’ statements, Minister Ashotyan noted on his Facebook page, “Prosperous Armenia’s proposal came as a helping hand to ARFD. The latter has had a series of political failures since 2009. The chain of failures resulted in the party’s entry to the parliament with the smallest faction. Today, ARFD doesn’t even have an adequate candidate for the upcoming presidential elections. This is a big tragedy for Armenia’s political culture and history.

In civilized countries failures usually force the party heads to send in resignation, yielding the platform to new figures and ideas. ARFD deserves a better history.”