Former Armenian President and Hayastan alliance prime ministerial candidate Robert Kocharyan commented on Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s recent statements during a campaign meeting with residents of Akhuryan.

“This man demonstrated through his behavior that he has obvious and apparent signs of mental disorder,” Kocharyan said, according to Panorama.am .

He asked what kind of person a family father should be — balanced, thoughtful, communicative, hardworking and responsible, or “hysterical, whining, changing opinions 10 times a week, lying and drinking.”

“What would you choose for your family? Let us consider our country as a large family. We have one man who fully fits the second description — hysterical and acting crazily. My appeal is this: let us treat our country as a large family, and much depends on the head of that family — whether the country will be calm or not, whether there will be war or peace,” he said.

Kocharyan added that Armenia has no room to make a second mistake because “there is no rear left.”

He stressed that the price of one mistake had been the loss of vast territories, 150,000 refugees, the loss of Artsakh and 5,000 deaths.

“Now there is no rear left. The next mistake will mean Syunik, it will mean Western Azerbaijan, perhaps the construction of mosques on Armenia’s territory. Do we want this? I do not think we do, which means we simply have no room for mistakes this time,” he said.

Referring to Pashinyan’s remarks directed at Artsakh Armenians, particularly comments about them “fleeing to Armenia,” Kocharyan said: “People who lived under a total blockade for nine months coming to Armenia is being called ‘escape,’ ‘you fled,’ and so on.”

He added that the roots of many people present in the hall traced back to Western Armenia.

“In essence, your relatives, ancestors and grandparents were called people who fled, abandoned their homeland. A significant part of Armenia’s population has such a tragic story. Your grandparents were called fugitives, meaning they should have stayed there, changed religion, become Turks, forgotten their language or died.

This is the same thing.

And does this man consider himself Armenian? Does he consider himself human? I do not know what he considers himself. On June 7 our people must show who that man really is, after he insulted 70 percent of our people,” Kocharyan said.

According to him, in order to change the situation, voters should “deliver a good slap” to Pashinyan on June 7.

“A slap to the scoundrel who dared insult the majority of our people,” he said.

During a campaign event in Yerevan’s Arabkir district on May 18, a woman approached Nikol Pashinyan and accused him of “destroying an entire young generation of the nation and stealing her homeland and brother.”

Pashinyan responded harshly: “Who are you? If you are Rob’s people, we will crush you. We will crush Rob, we will crush the Kaluga man, we will crush Gago, we will crush Serzh.” The prime minister also said he would “destroy” the individuals he listed.