YEREVAN. – Armenia’s current system is formed by those in the proportional election lists; they are the protectors of these systems, opposition member—and former member of the Karabakh Committee—Ashot Manucharyan said, during a press conference on Thursday, reflecting on the political parties’ electoral lists for the upcoming parliamentary elections. He also stressed that the outside world will play a very big role in these elections.      

In Manucharyan’s words, the sad thing is that the people agree with this game; they deem unjust not the fact that the oligarch is plundering, but rather why they are not oligarchs instead.

Commenting on the bribe being distributed in the lead-up to the elections, Ashot Manucharyan noted that bribe is part of the “election” ritual. 

And speaking about the ways out, he stated that the newly-engaged civil initiatives are the embryos of the new social order.     

Ashot Manucharyan is convinced that the pseudo wise men are Armenia’s first traitors; and the “rich man’s” entry to the tools of power is the most extreme crime, and, consequently, execution by shooting needs to be restored for that man.