Armenians expect radical changes following resignation of government- political analysts

YEREVAN, September 8. /ARKA/. Armenia’s citizens expect radical changes following the resignation of Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamyan, Sergey Minasyan, a political analyst from the Yerevan-based Caucasus Institute, said today.

Hovik Abrahamyan announced his resignation at today’s cabinet session ‘in order to give way to a coalition government,’ promised by president Serzh Sargsyan in the wake of a violent standoff at a police station in Yerevan in July.

"The society expects radical changes; time will show whether they will happen or not. Everything is possible in politics, even the impossible," Minasyan said in an interview with Novosti-Armenia news agency.

In his words, the resignation of the prime minister was quite logical, as such rumors had been circulating for a long time and especially after Serzh Sargsyan promised a government of national accord after the surrender of the armed group that held the police compound in Yerevan for two weeks.

"It was clear that sooner or later, Abrahamyan will have to step down’,  Minasyan said.

Reports in the local media named Karen Karapetyan as a likely successor. Karapetyan is a technocrat and former mayor of Yerevan. Before that he served as the head of a national gas distributing company. His latest job was a senior position in one of Russia’s largest commercial banks Gazprombank.-0-

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15:32 09/08/2016