Kocharyan questions "collective memory" and slams Pashinyan`s mandate

ArmInfo. During a meeting with voters in Yerevan's Ajapnyak district, Robert Kocharyan, Armenia's second president and leader of the "Armenia" alliance,  questioned whether the Armenian people are capable of preserving their collective memory.

Kocharyan noted that while individuals learn from experience, the  nation seems to have forgotten the consequences of the 2020 war—the  loss of Artsakh, 5,000 deaths, and 12,000 wounded. "It seems to me  the people remember, yet we all know what happened in 2021 when they  voted for Nikol Pashinyan, emboldening him to surrender Artsakh,"  Kocharyan stated, adding that he still lacks an explanation for this  "failure of collective memory."

The former president argued that while voters typically grant a  mandate to fulfill campaign promises, the current administration has  decoupled its mandate from its word. Effectively, Kocharyan claimed,  Pashinyan received a mandate not to serve his people, but to serve  Aliyev. "Usually, a person hates not the one who brought them to  their knees, but those who didn't—and for that reason, he actively  fights all patriots," Kocharyan noted, scathingly comparing the Prime  Minister to "Aliyev's lapdog." Kocharyan concluded by urging  supporters to vote for ballot number 17 on June 7.