The decision on the resignation was made by the president himself. I found out about it 3.5 hours before it was announced, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said at a news conference on January 24.

According to him, the President's positions related to the Constitution are known and, as he noted last time, their approaches differed significantly on this issue. "I also want to stress that after 2017, when Armen Sarkisian was elected President, then I was elected Prime Minister, the provisions of the Constitution have not changed during this time. In any case, in terms of the powers of the president," Pashinyan recalled.

According to Pashinyan, there are some explanations about the reasons for his resignation. "I myself take them into account and I do not know how to comment on what is there satisfactory and what is not. Each official decides for himself, after all, on the basis of what arguments and methodology of weighing arguments these decisions are made," he said.