The formation of the councils of the offices is in full swing; councils of the Resistance Movement have been formed in virtually all provinces. Opposition MP Ishkhan Saghatelyan, who is also coordinator of Armenia’s Resistance Movement, told this to a press conference Monday
"Yes, we hold a rally once a week, on the rest of the days, a huge amount of work is done which is not visible to the public. All the gaps, organizational difficulties that we had, all of that is recorded, and a huge amount of work is being done to eliminate these gaps.
Councils of the movement are being formed in all provinces so that the movement is transferred in full to the provinces as well. In addition to the main [political] parties, we also engage various individuals, able forces.
Second, we have created eight committees, commissions which carry out very specific works in that regard. After completing these works, at some phase their results will be obvious to you. I assure [you] that we work at the same pace, but we also do back-office work," he said.
Saghatelyan stated that the second president of Armenia, Robert Kocharyan, also participated in the opposition rallies and will participate in them in the near future as well, and there is no problem in this regard.
Reflecting on the matter of political prisoners in Armenia, the opposition lawmaker said that they failed in this regard and the international community did not receive accurate respective reports from Armenia, and many of them were hearing this matter for the first time.
"But at least the issues that were covered up will be paid attention to from now on; in this sense there will be a change."
As for starting the process of removing PM Nikol Pashinyan from power, the opposition figure stated: "I did not say that we have started the dismissal process as of August 2. As I said: as of August 2, another one is being added to our [relevant] mechanism: the possibility of dismissal. I said clearly, we will enter into that process only when there are sufficient grounds for achieving success. We will not enter as a formality into that process. And it is obvious that those grounds exist in legal and political terms. That process will end successfully only if the nationwide movement reaches the point where there will no longer be an alternative. Regarding [the opposition factions] returning to the parliament, I have said [that] we will return to the parliament solely with our agenda," Saghatelyan said.
