YEREVAN. – It is the calm before the storm in today’s politics of Armenia, opposition bloc Armenian National Congress (ANC) MP and Social-Democratic Hnchakyan Party (SDHP) Chairwoman Lyudmila Sargsyan said during a press conference on Monday.  

In her view, the current situation that is created in the lead-up to next year’s presidential elections is somewhat exclusive because the rigged elections have disappointed the body politic and, also, in terms of a quest for an alternative. “But I believe the people will make their remark. The authorities think there is no alternative to [President] Serzh Sargsyan, but this is too much self-confidence,” Lyudmila Sargsyan stated.       

She added that the expected presidential nominations will show that Serzh Sargsyan himself could become an alternative and vie solely for the second or third spot. “We have a weak government that does not have the people’s confidence, and it does not have the solution for the questions expected [to be raised] by the people,” the ANC MP noted.