I believe the citizen put it very correctly since the person who needs to be removed can be removed with this ‘steel mandate’ [a steel hammer], and the person can be nailed with this ‘steel mandate’ wherever nailing is necessary. This is what candidate of Civil Contract Party for Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan said during a campaign meeting in the city of Abovyan today.
“I received a gift in Yeghvard this morning. This is a ‘steel mandate’. I believe the citizen put it very correctly since the person who needs to be removed can be removed with this ‘steel mandate’, and the person can be nailed with this ‘steel mandate’ wherever nailing is necessary. However, this is first and foremost a symbol of construction, and we need to rebuild Armenia in terms of infrastructures, and we need to establish dictatorship of law and order with this ‘steel mandate’. During the elections, we need to establish the dictatorship of _expression_ of free will of the people so that nobody tries to have an influence on that. Those who have tried, will be detained. Those who manage to escape, we will go after them with this ‘steel mandate’,” he said.