Since there will be no more presidential election in Armenia, all forces that have been looking forward to a race without Serzh Sargsyan have lost all their hopes to change the President, Director of the Armenian Center for National and International Studies Manvel Sargsyan told ArmInfo on Monday.
"As to the planned referendum, it will be just a game inside the ruling regime. Serzh Sargsyan is not going to be the President or the Prime Minister when his second term expires but he has not said that he is not going to be the Speaker of the Parliament. Today we are facing a very dangerous situation when the usurpers are legalizing their criminal-oligarchic regime," Sargsyan said.
So, he urges the conscious part of the society to do something to stop this process as all the others that have no hopes for the maximum will be happy at the minimum.
"After its last congress the ruling Republican Party made it clear to all the other forces that things will not change in the next decade. If you have 5% in the parliament, you will get exactly as much again. If you try to get more, you will lose what you have. So, today Armenia is close to becoming a slave of criminal capital as today power in the country is held by people who possess its wealth with no legal right to it," Sargsyan said.