Republicans to consider not nominating PM candidate if elections take place May 2019

The Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) has proposed to Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan to hold early elections of parliament in May, 2019, in which case they can also discuss their non-nomination of a candidate for prime minister, according to HHK Vice-President Armen Ashotyan.

“The most common compromise option which was suggested to the prime minister was to postpone the elections until May, manage to reform the electoral code, adopt the Venice commission’s recommendations regarding this code, allow other parties to also prepare for the elections, calm down the situation and go for elections. In this case not nominating a prime ministerial candidate could’ve been a part of our suggested package,” Ashotyan said.

Ashotyan says that the PM has listened to their suggestions but no agreement has been made.