Everyone will vote for Nikol?
Either the remaining candidates have to be seated in the cells next to Nikol Pashinyan, or Nikol Pashinyan's precautionary measure must change," Hmayak Hovhannisyan said.
NA deputy candidate Hmayak Hovhannisyan believes that the NA Deputy elections to be held at precinct #10 are not elections, but a verdict that the jury consisting of voters must reach.
"The people who trusted Nikol Pashinyan and those who don't share his views and are even against him, definitely complain about Armenia's judicial system. In essence, in the elections, voters will respond to the question on whether they trust the judicial system or not. If they don't, they must vote for Nikol Pashinyan who has become a symbol of people who challenge the judicial system," Hmayak Hovhannisyan says.
He announced that he was going to withdraw by December 31 in favor of Nikol. "The verdict of the court will lose power after the elections at the 10th precinct and will be eliminated after the formulation of the verdict of the jury at the precinct."
Hmayak Hovhannisyan doesn't accept the candidates' uneven conditions. "What does it mean to compete with prisoners? It is the same as a boxer agreeing to face-off against someone whose hands are tied. This is not an honest competition. Either the remaining candidates have to be seated in the cells next to Nikol Pashinyan, or Nikol Pashinyan's precautionary measure must change," said president of the Union of Political Scientists.
Hmayak Hovhannisyan took note that he would have participated in the elections if another figure participated in them, even from the Armenian National Congress and even Levon Ter-Petrosyan. "But it's different in Nikol Pashinyan's case. Everyone who don't accept Pashinyan's temperament, working style, radical views will vote for him when they reach the polls, taking into account the step that I am taking. Those who consider Pashinyan innocent and those who believe that he has his share of the blame, don't accept the fact that there is an attempt to throw the blame of the events of March 1 on Nikol Pashinyan. Somebody like Nikol Pashinyan was not the one who could have prevented the slaughter on March 1. The names of those responsible were commander-in-chief Robert Kocharyan and the Supreme Patriarch, who didn't do it..."
Hmayak Hovhannisyan doesn't understand member of the Armenian National Congress, chairman of the Marxist Party David Hakobyan's behavior for not stepping out of the campaign, but he doesn't blame Hakobyan either.
