YEREVAN. – The Georgia model has played a great role in the selection of Armenia’s prime ministerial candidate (i.e. capital city Yerevan former mayor and ArmRosGazprom natural gas company former general director, Karen Karapetyan).

Anush Sedrakyan, vice-chairwoman of the opposition Free Democrats Party, stated the aforesaid at a press conference on Friday.

In her words, Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamyan’s resignation Thursday was due to the reduction in Armenia’s economic growth.

Sedrakyan noted that the four-day war which Azerbaijan had unleashed against Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) in early April, and the unrest following the Sasna Tsrer armed group’s takeover of a police patrol regiment building in Yerevan in July, also played a big role.

“At least a waiting zone needs to be found to surmount the societal discontent,” said the Free Democrats Party official. “It seems to me that the Georgian model played a great role in the matter of selecting the PM candidate. But we are forgetting that 50 to 60 percent of Armenia’s economic problems is in the economic model that was chosen.” 

Anush Sedrakyan added, however, that the change of Armenian government will solve one problem: it will turn public discontent into public standby.