The President of Armenia is either being blackmailed or is serving foreign interests. This is what human rights activist Ruben Melikyan told Hayeli.

According to him, the President’s role in the processes unfolding in the country is negative, to say the least. “The President announced a problem with constitutionality of the proposal of the Prime Minister to dismiss the chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces, but didn’t apply to the Constitutional Court. As for the aim of the President’s offer to meet with the Prime Minister, leaders of parliamentary factions and the opposition, there are a few options. The President might try to legitimize the snap elections organized by Nikol Pashinyan,” he said, adding that this will be devastating since has Pashinyan no longer has the moral right to hold elections and that a clear example of the use of administrative resources was the rally held on March 1.