Marutyan accuses Pashinyan of being ‘hostage’ abroad

PanARMENIAN.Net - There is also a country leader who is “a hostage in a neighboring state,” said Hayk Marutyan, founder of the“New Force party and former mayor of Yerevan, reacting to Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s statement that “one oligarch’s son is a hostage in a country you know, another oligarch’s assets are hostages in that country.”

“You are absolutely right, Mr. Pashinyan, but you forgot to mention one more person. There is also a country leader who is a hostage in a neighboring state,” he said, according to Panorama.am.

Pashinyan had questioned whether people wanted the country to be governed by individuals who were effectively in a hostage situation.

Commenting on those remarks, Marutyan said, “That leader who is hostage in the neighboring state does everything they tell him to do. He says, ‘Don’t look at Ararat, it’s not ours, Artsakh is not ours’, and it never was ours. Now, at the demand of that neighboring state, he also wants to change the constitution. I’ve told you several times already: if you are a hostage, give us a signal — we’ll save both you and the Armenian nation.”

The election campaign that began on May 8 will continue until June 5. June 6 will be a day of silence, while elections will be held on June 7.