Sasna Tsrer responds to Pashinyan’s warning
27.11.2018,
15:37
A recently-established Armenian political party called Sasna Tsrer (Daredevils of Sasoon) responded today to acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s criticism who warned the party against confusing his government with the “weak character government of ex-president Serzh Sargsyan.
YEREVAN, November 27. /ARKA/. A recently-established Armenian political party called Sasna Tsrer (Daredevils of Sasoon) responded today to acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s criticism who warned the party against confusing his government with the “weak character government of ex-president Serzh Sargsyan. Pashinyan’s remarks were made during an election campaign on November 26 in the town of Maralik.
Sasna Tsrer is made up of members of an armed group who seized and held for two weeks a police station in downtown Yerevan in July 2016 and members of a radical opposition Founding Parliament movement, who were tried and convicted of plotting a coup in 2015. They were freed by an amnesty, timed to the 100th anniversary of the First Armenian Republic and the 2800th anniversary of the foundation of Yerevan marked this year, approved earlier by the National Assembly.
In a statement issued today Sasna Tsrer accused Pashinyan, who is campaigning for his My Step bloc, of making unjustified statements aimed against Sasna Tsrer party, and of using threats and expressions with offensive implications. In the statement the party once again confirmed its support for the velvet revolution and its goals.
"At the same time, we continue to assert that in view of the challenges facing our people and the state, and social and political events they have caused, in about a year or two, there will be a need for holding new early elections," the statement says.
The statement also calls on representatives of all political parties to refrain from slandering each other and unite around the single goal - to form a National Assembly that will be free of a criminal oligarchy, which was part of the previous government.
Acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan resigned October 16 to clear way for the dissolution of the parliament and holding early parliamentary elections. Under the Armenian Constitution, early elections are held if lawmakers fail twice within 14 days to appoint a prime minister.
Pashinyan was elected as PM by the country's National Assembly after former president turned-prime minister Serzh Sargsyan resigned on April 23 under immense public pressure provided by weeks of nationwide protest against Sargsyan and his Republican Party.
Nine political parties and 2 blocs will be contesting the polls. They are My Step bloc, the Prosperous Armenia Party, the National Progress Party, the Christian-National Revival, the Sasna Tsrer All-Armenian Party, the Orinats Yerkir Party, the We bloc, the ARF Dashnaktsutyun Party, the Bright Armenia bloc, the Republican Party of Armenia, the Social Democratic Party and the Decision of Citizen party. -0-
Sasna Tsrer is made up of members of an armed group who seized and held for two weeks a police station in downtown Yerevan in July 2016 and members of a radical opposition Founding Parliament movement, who were tried and convicted of plotting a coup in 2015. They were freed by an amnesty, timed to the 100th anniversary of the First Armenian Republic and the 2800th anniversary of the foundation of Yerevan marked this year, approved earlier by the National Assembly.
In a statement issued today Sasna Tsrer accused Pashinyan, who is campaigning for his My Step bloc, of making unjustified statements aimed against Sasna Tsrer party, and of using threats and expressions with offensive implications. In the statement the party once again confirmed its support for the velvet revolution and its goals.
"At the same time, we continue to assert that in view of the challenges facing our people and the state, and social and political events they have caused, in about a year or two, there will be a need for holding new early elections," the statement says.
The statement also calls on representatives of all political parties to refrain from slandering each other and unite around the single goal - to form a National Assembly that will be free of a criminal oligarchy, which was part of the previous government.
Acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan resigned October 16 to clear way for the dissolution of the parliament and holding early parliamentary elections. Under the Armenian Constitution, early elections are held if lawmakers fail twice within 14 days to appoint a prime minister.
Pashinyan was elected as PM by the country's National Assembly after former president turned-prime minister Serzh Sargsyan resigned on April 23 under immense public pressure provided by weeks of nationwide protest against Sargsyan and his Republican Party.
Nine political parties and 2 blocs will be contesting the polls. They are My Step bloc, the Prosperous Armenia Party, the National Progress Party, the Christian-National Revival, the Sasna Tsrer All-Armenian Party, the Orinats Yerkir Party, the We bloc, the ARF Dashnaktsutyun Party, the Bright Armenia bloc, the Republican Party of Armenia, the Social Democratic Party and the Decision of Citizen party. -0-
