They Say: People, You Have No Business, Just Cast Your Ballot in the Box, We Will Decide Who Becomes a Deputy. Marukyan

“They say, dear people, when I allow you to decide who enters the parliament, you bring in criminals. Is this the text that they tell the people?” said Edmon Marukyan, head of the ‘Enlightened Armenia’ faction, during a conversation with journalists in the National Assembly on April 1, addressing the ruling party's desire to introduce a closed list proportional electoral system in the Electoral Code, where voters cast their ballots for a party's list but cannot suggest changes to that list.

“They say: people, you have no business, just cast our ballot in the box, we will decide who will become a deputy. This is a path to curse participatory democracy. Next, with this electoral system, they want to make the struggle between Nikol Pashinyan and the former government, which has always been Pashinyan's dream. They say there will be an ideological struggle. What is the ideology—crooks and thieves? You need to have an idea to represent,” Marukyan added.