Prior to the snap parliamentary elections on June 20, the situation of the pre-election power struggle will intensify so much that we can almost predict that we are on the verge of a civil war. Edmon Marukyan, chairman of the opposition “Bright Armenia” Party and head of its parliamentary faction, said this during the party’s press conference today.

“Yesterday we were following the presentation of the ruling party’s pre-election program, where some angry people were criticizing the formation of a government of national accord, the agenda of solidarity, being united, joint against our enemy. And in this sense, I’m just surprised: if solidarity is rejected, what is its alternative? Its alternative is civil war, clashes. The dose of hatred will rise so much that people will be brought into conflict,” he said.

Marukyan stressed that if the election campaign of the ruling party and the former authorities continues in this spirit, it will be impossible to avoid clashes.

According to him, the political arena in Armenia is arranged in such a way that the “Bright Armenia” Party is a political force that has no enemies. 

“We will impose internal political peace on these irreconcilable parties because they will not find common ground with each other, they will not spare any resources to destroy each other and as a result, they will destroy all of us. In fact, we have witnessed such a battle,” Edmon Marukyan added.

“We are not saying, give us a vote so that we will come to power; we are saying, authorize us to bring peace to the two conflicting forces, which are obsessed with destroying each other. The Republic of Armenia needs governments of national accord for about 3-5 years. There has always been irreconcilability, opposition struggle, movements inside the country, but at that time there were different conditions. When we were protesting at that time, the enemy was not in Syunik or Gegharkunik region with an army of a thousand, the enemy was not planning to get a corridor in Zangezur. It was bad then that there was no unification, but now we need to realize that something has changed in our lives,” Marukyan said.

He thinks now it is a luxury to have consistently conflicting poles inside such a small country, followers of the poles hating each other and ready to destroy each other at any cost.

“What was the relationship between Churchill and Stalin? Then they communicated, right? Or you know what relationship the former presidents had in the Armenian system, what relationship they have now. I want to say that it is possible to bring a common field, but the initiator of it should not have a feud with any party,” the “Bright Armenia” leader added.