YEREVAN. – It is difficult to imagine how the post-presidential-election situation in the country would end, opposition Armenian National Congress (ANC) MP Gagik Jhangiryan told news reporters Monday in the National Assembly.   

“There is no clear action plan, whereas the steps that are being taken are illogical,” Jhangiryan said, but noted that he does not plan on giving advice because opposition Heritage Party leader, former FM Raffi Hovannisian—who is declared runner-up to the winner, incumbent President Serzh Sargsyan, as a result of the presidential election that was conducted on February 18, but who claims to be the real winner in the vote and who declared a hunger strike on March 10 at capital city Yerevan’s Liberty Square—is not an ANC member.      

Speaking on Hovannisian’s hunger strike, the opposition MP specifically said as follows:

“When I was sitting in the prison cell and my political prisoner colleagues were on a hunger strike, I never joined that action. It is a very weak political move in the process of political struggle, especially since, according to official data, 36 percent of the population [of Armenia] is at the poverty level and is malnourished. I see no point in declaring a hunger strike.”         

To the query as to whether he plans on visiting Hovannisian and urging him to end his hunger strike, Gagik Jhangiryan responded that he has no such ethical right, since he is not a member of Raffi Hovannisian’s political team.