Power change imminent in Armenia

/By AzerNews/

By Mushvig Mehdiyev

Armenia has lost respect of Russia and the West’s trust and its relations with Iran are just on the paper, said an influential Armenian political figure.

Slamming the Armenian leadership's foreign policy course, Vardan Oskanyan, Armenia's former Foreign Minister, Member of Parliament from an opposition Prosperous Armenia party Oskanyan, said the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict has never been in a stalemate before like it is in a deadlock now.

"The only way to get out of the current crisis is a power change. People's patience has already exhausted," Oskanyan said.

Nagorno-Karabakh conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan is a result of Armenia's forcible invasion in Azerbaijani territory in early 1990s. Armenia occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan's internationally recognized territory, driving out ove a million of Azerbaijanis from their native lands.

Oskanyan believes that Armenia has welcomed 2015 with unresolved and deepening problems. On the other hand, the last year was unprecedented in terms of uniting the political forces.

"Last year, a number of political forces in Armenia united to demand for a power change," Oskanyan added.

The state governing the country has been on a drift during the last seven years, said Oskanyan.

"The Armenian authorities take no effort to change anything in the country, since they do not want to harm their own interests," he said.

Oskanyan has earlier been reported to inflict a hard blow on the Armenian authorities from abroad, as Armenianreport.com, a local media outlet, reported that he is preparing to mobilize his supporters in Slovakia's capital Bratislava.

Given former statesmen's criticism of the current authorities, a new front is seemingly being established in a political battlefield in Armenia against incumbent President Serzh Sargsyan.

Robert Kocharyan, former president, is reportedly forming a league of former public servants, who were sacked during Sargsyan's tenure. Kocharyan is arranging a serious attack on the incumbent authorities to clinch his re-rise to power in the post-Soviet country, according to local media.

The former president criticized the situation in Armenia with a clear aspiration to return to politics, said Lernik Aleksanyan, a Member of Parliament from the ruling Republican party.

Sargsyan's failure to sit around the same table with the former top echelon is hinting to an imminent power change in Armenia.

Gagik Tsarukyan, an opposition leader, has revealed the possibility of earlier presidential and parliamentary elections in the country.

Naira Zohrabyan, an MP, has called on the government to decide between a power change in Armenia or the final destruction of the country.