They Want to Cut Us Off from Our Roots: Pashinyan

There are not many institutions for leadership formation in Armenia. This was stated by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan during a government meeting.

“Leadership in Armenia is mainly formed on the street,” noted Pashinyan. He emphasized that leadership should develop at a foundational level and evolve through competition.

“Whoever you ask, they say, ‘Institutions need to be established,’ and you say, ‘Wait a minute, explain to me what an institution is… an institution is this, that you take and lay a pipe in the person's house.’ Our entire budget and all our programs are reflections of leadership because someone thinks and says, ‘This is what needs to be done, this is what shouldn’t be done.’ Now we are taking that leadership and putting it in front of the people. This is the institutional establishment of democracy; they can no longer go and say, ‘If you give us a voice, bring the lists with passport numbers, then we will fill the hole.’

We are not saying this, but now the expert community will analyze my speech, and tonight we will see what else we have sold, what we have given, what conspiracies we have engaged in, and what external forces have imposed this demand that we cut our citizens off from our tradition, that the lord must decide, ‘What do they want to do? They want to cut us off from our roots.’ You are smiling, but it is a hundred percent true,” said the Prime Minister.