YEREVAN. - The candidate for the Armenian prime minister Karen Karapetyan is able to struggle against the showdown economy, corruption, protectionism and monopolies.

MP of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (RPA), Samvel Nikoyan, told the aforementioned to Armenian News – NEWS.am.

“To all those who say that he was abroad for five years, I state: Karen Karapetyan is fully aware of the situation in Armenia. He knows all the problems, as well as the condition and priorities of our economy,” Mikoyan said.

To the question how Karapetyan will combat corruption, protectionism, monopolies and shadow economy – something that former PM Hovik Abrahamyan failed to do – the MP said: “Karapetyan can do a lot: He is decisive and has his own point of view regarding how to change all this. And we will all together, including the journalists, help this person at the initial stage of his work. But if we start looking for faults in Karapetyan’s work since the very first day, this will yield no results.”