8 Jan in 22:00
On January 7, the head of the spiritual office of the Armenian Apostolic Church (AAC), Archbishop Arshak Khachatryan, announced the need for Nikol Pashinyan to leave the post of Prime Minister of the republic as soon as possible, referring to the demand of the Catholicos of All Armenians Garegin II, who called on Pashinyan to resign. The AAC believes that Pashinyan is personally responsible for the military escalation in Karabakh and the defeat of Armenia in the second Karabakh war. Nikol Pashinyan himself did not comment on the words of the Armenian clergy in any way.
Recently, criticism of Pashinyan and demands for his resignation have become a kind of trend: many Armenian politicians, experts and bloggers take advantage of the situation of unlimited public censure of the prime minister and try to make a name for themselves through this. The AAC, it would seem, does not need PR, and issues of internal politics, including the backstage intrigues of the political establishment of Armenia, are outside the field of vision of the clergy. However, the clergy say that in the current political situation "the Church cannot be an outside observer."