YEREVAN. – Hayk Alumyan, the lawyer of second President Robert Kocharyan of Armenia, does not rule out that Kocharyan's current lawsuit against Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan's slanderous statements will end like the previous one. The attorney expressed his respective view in an interview.

According to him, there are signs that Pashinyan will attempt to say—through his legal representative in court—that he did not mean Kocharyan in the aforesaid statements. To note, this is exactly what happened last time.

The aforesaid civil lawsuit refers to the slanderous remarks made by Pashinyan during the rally in Yerevan's Republic Square on March 1 last year. In April, Kocharyan's lawyer, Hayk Alumyan, had filed a lawsuit with a request to defend his client’s honor and dignity from public expressed slander and a compensation for non-pecuniary damage caused by this slander.

And speaking about the pressure put on the Armenian opposition, the lawyer noted that ever since 2018, the incumbent authorities say that in the new scene in Armenia the opinion of the people is decisive, and the elections are now open, transparent, and fair.

"Let’s assume this is so. But what is the point of holding such elections if the condition is the following: if the opposition wins, they should be arrested? Another hypocrisy," Alumyan concluded.