Pashinyan promises to take revenge on his political opponents

Nikol Pashinyan told the voters that he would perceive his victory in the elections as a “steel mandate” for a “personnel clean-up” and would remove from power the officials who used administrative resources against him.

The “Caucasian Knot” has reported that early elections to the National Assembly of Armenia are scheduled for June 20, and the pre-election campaign was launched on June 7.

Today, while delivering a speech at a meeting with his “comrades-in-arms” in the town of Talin in the Aragatsotn Region, Nikol Pashinyan promised to carry out a “clean-up” with regard to the officials who “did not use the opportunities of the ‘velvet revolution’ after 2018 and played the role of a ‘Trojan horse’.” The acting Prime Minister of Armenia threatened with a “vendetta” those heads of public institutions and municipal administrations who forced their employees to participate in protest actions.

“I am talking not of physical violence, but of political and civil vendetta. You will see the complete personnel ‘clean-up,’ and all the scum will be expelled from the system of state administration,” said Nikol Pashinyan as quoted by the “News-Armenia”.

The heads of communities who had resorted to administrative resources would be “thrown out into the street,” Nikol Pashinyan claimed. He called on the voters to support him. “Give us a mandate to carry out the ‘clean-up,’ and we will kick all those ‘Trojan horses’ out of government,” the acting Prime Minister of Armenia stated to the applause of the crowd.

This article was originally published on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’ on June 8, 2021 at 05:18 pm MSK. To access the full text of the article, click here.