YEREVAN. – Zhamanak daily interviewed Armenia’s former PM and opposition bloc Armenian National Congress member Hrant Bagratyan. Below is an excerpt from the interview.

How do you picture the image of a PM?

The PM’s office is special. The PM must be a serious professional in numerous matters. There are many professional people today. Nonetheless, those RPA [i.e., Republican Party of Armenia] members became MPs [in the May 6 National Assembly elections] by election fraud, by mobilizing the ‘notables’ and the criminal world, by distributing money. They must find a professional person, but I do not know how they would act.  

There is another problem. They will never allow someone who is cleverer than them to become PM. This problem always exists. That is why we say forged elections do not guarantee the forming of a good government.              

Will [incumbent PM] Tigran Sargsyan, together with his team, continue to work and head the executive body?

I do not know.