Office ain’t no enjoyment for me, says Sargsyan amid ongoing protests
“I treat obsequiousness very negatively, but I also treat negatively people who are unfairly chanting, defaming and distorting what others have said”, Prime Minister of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan said in an interview to SHANT TV.
“I am sure there is nobody in the country who likes obsequiousness, but is it really obsequiousness when a party or executive bodies of a party unanimously decide to nominate someone – in this given case me – as a candidate for Prime Minister? In this case I have to say the following – then how should governance be implemented?”
The interviewer argued that there were no other politicians other than Sargsyan among the ruling Republican Party who were fit for office of PM, to which the Prime Minister responded by saying that in this specific case the HHK (Republican Party) decided to nominate his candidacy, and didn’t rule out that there can be others within the party who are suitable for the job.
“Ask the participants of all these consultations whether there have been other opinions, whether there has been any compulsion. Certainly not, it was [the party’s] decision. And it is not understandable why our party can’t have this right. Is this a violation of any law? Is there a breach on any law here? No, there isn’t. Those who think so could have garnered more votes during the elections and nominate their preferred candidate”, Prime Minister Serzh Sargsyan said.
Mr. Sargsyan stressed that after any election, a group of people stands up and begins to disapprove the elected politicians and demand new elections.
“Will the country develop this way? Whoever doesn’t like, my advice is to patiently wait and see how the country is developing, then make conclusions, and if these conclusions don’t satisfy them let them cast their ballots during elections for someone else. And let them come and, as they themselves claim “enjoy” this office. Office isn’t an enjoyment for me. It [falsely] seems to them that it is”, Serzh Sargsyan said.
