Acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, who is the ruling Civil Contract Party’s candidate for the post of Prime Minister, has addressed Armenian citizens. His message reads as follows, in particular:
"I want you not to give up, I want you not to doubt. They are trying to convince you that you were wrong thinking that you can be a decision-maker in your homeland, in your state. They are trying to convince you that time has shown the opposite, that you must either be a subject in your homeland or lose your homeland.
But I address you with the conviction that the truth is just the opposite. For many years we endured many things for the sake of the homeland, and as a result it turned out that we are tolerating the destruction of the homeland.
And now you are facing a choice: To abide by the time? Or make the time abide by you? I want you to make the time abide by you because the time that did not abide by you yesterday is the key cause of our losses today. Our bitterness today has accumulated yesterday.
I am writing to you to say that there is a future [for Armenia]. There is a future, and we will create it today."