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armenia's prime minister warns of a coup old growth for his resignation will now called question liane be able to survive and what is the challenge by the army mean for the country this is inside story. hello and welcome to the show i'm sam is a than armenia's prime minister is faced months of protests and several attempts in parliament to dismiss him but despite the growing discontent over his handling of the war with azerbaijan in

a corner cut about the call passion the end has been defiant or now the army is demanding he leaves office he's fired the army chief and accuse the military of an attempted coup by shinee and says the army should not be involved in the political process and has rallied supporters behind him his opponents have held the rival rally and set up a camp outside the parliament to pressure him to quit the job armenia's traditional ally russia says it's alarmed by the events it's been joined by the us in calling for restraint in the country robin for us to walk reports from the out of. nicko passion. was able to bring out large numbers of his supporters to the center of the capital yerevan with a live facebook message calling on them to show that he is still in charge and that he has the popular support of the armenian people because he's all 30 is now in question we've had the generals so many of them signing

a letter calling for him government to resign we have the armenian church supporting his resignation the question now is whether the president of all media whose power is a limited whether he is also going to weigh in and whether he can critically undermine nichol tashan younes or he now has to decide whether to accept the letter calling for the dismissal of the head of the armed forces which nicko question the morons having said that their call for him to resign amounted to an attempted military coup he has 3 days or he had 3 dates from the state to decide whether or not to go ahead with mr passé request if he doesn't this raises serious questions about the suppression yards future and that future can go to one of 2 ways he can either clean on to power or he can try to agree to snap

elections which also would be tricky for him because in order to do that he has to resign and then the parliament would have to support new elections what the opposition a calling for is not. immediate elections they wanted him to room government that would take charge with elections much further down the line but still everything at the moment hangs in the balance so the prime minister of armenia nicol passion. chalons now takes a look at nicole passion yan's rise to power it is apparent declining popularity. thank you for talking dates last year is the conflict with azerbaijan. smith sat down with armenian prime minister nicole question where violence is the end of the interview he asked him this question do you worry for your own popularity that if you mishandle this conflict if it doesn't go your way then you yourself are going

to suffer in your position of prime minister did it. or you see it up with what they reached the position of the prime minister not to defend my popularity but. to serve the national interests of people and to defend the dreams of people in my country so along this path absolutely not interested in my person that's just as well armenia lost the war and passion popularity diminish though it was just 2 years ago the scenes of pressure. crowds adulation as he became prime minister from a different political age then he was the man of the moment for former journalist and opposition politician who the end of march 28th seen launched a protest organization called might step. in his camera t. shirts and cap came across as an every man antidote to the perceived cynicism

corruption of armenia's ruling elites 2 term president says sarkozy and was trying to continue his really becoming prime minister the crowds were determined to stop him the so-called velvet revolution. from power after 2 elections in may 28th. replaced him. governing armenia isn't easy besides its entrenched domestic problems was also taking on armenia regional relationships in october 2020 the stalled peace talks with azerbaijan over nagorno-karabakh collapsed armed and assisted by turkey azerbaijan went on a devastating offensive to stave off a complete rout pression eon accepted a humiliating russian brokered ceasefire giving up swathes of formerly armenian controlled territory it cost him huge political capital and opened a rift between his government and the military. this is the end of the velvet

revolution machine made very clear in his speech that he said this is the end of belgrade what that means and what comes after is anyone's guess there is a lot of unstability in the country after the war that ended in november of 2028 the opposition has been calling for his resignation not long ago he was the figurehead of a more democratic and equitable armenia now nic an impression iraq's political future in the parlance. thank. you let's bring our guests into the chair we have joining us from the other van has asked danielle young member of parliament representing the governing my step alliance and our son hati an independent analyst on conflict resolution former advisor to prime minister nicole passion yet and to have on policy and president of the international center for human development and an ad hoc advisor to the

president of armenia thank you for all of you for joining us let me start with hammers asked can the prime minister survive this challenge. i do this you're referring to the journals are more oil. and some are also coal is a questions. in my opinion the nature of great cities. is not only about the planet it's there it's also the state it's. the more the grain or government are. the. legal sources who are challenging. the status. 'd ringback legitimacy the elected government. are democratic by ending the biography or i'm referring of that their voice or of the going to what the prime

minister himself is warning about that there's a plan for a coup he said can he survive. well i think. the novel you're referring to was my morning because the rose statement coming from number or hiring military officials who call couric there's no branding i will bring we are. not going anywhere in particular seeing our new. as a very near bear and on all. 3 of us not make men. friends by a mission. there is war. being. and i call. now really now though.

all right let me bring to van into the discussion we understand you're an ad hoc advices for the president the president has been meeting with military leaders what do you think his message is going to be will he be reflecting that sort of message which has asked. explain for us that perspective that their announcement or their call for the resignation mean this is a threat not only to the prime minister but to the civilian institutions of democracy. first let me go ahead was the point of view that i don't think that civilian institutions democracy on the roads was such a statement because sudan institution so democracy in the parliament the really governing more the conferees are in the parliament and when the parliament is no getting into the discussion and no developing and political consensus developing

negotiation rooms there's no other place to speak people are speaking a negli it's possible to the ocean point that so i think the vote is going to go in process now which is run by the presidential administration is negotiation with all the players today has been meeting was going along really all about do you want expressing that message. but they'd step on to army armies keep the silence for the last 4 months something catch up they keep side every and leave that for the politicians who resigns and who stay. surry point is the following voted by 77 to army and would they done they just wore that guy i'm not any more possible by d's way of governing to keep the security of the

country who should the raise the issue that's why they raised the new shoe and now is the issue of the politicians try to deal with this find the solution find the possibility to come to the peace of a resolution of the stick to the ation and go and do it in a very proper way that because even the democratic institutions of the country but properly work after november 9th i do believe that we will never have such as they can from the army all right let's bring in alice and then how realistic is the warning of a coup is the country really facing a clue. thank you thank you for inviting this great panel and thank you all just europe for bringing us armenians together in this english language program it's a very good question i don't think. very large parts of the public are very much convinced that news of this was actually a coup i personally believe that. the statement i mean again the

communication continues to be one of the largest problems and i think that there is a political crisis as much as a lot of my friends in the ruling party may not recognize it or may think otherwise which is perfectly fine but a debate and an understanding is needed clearly i don't know how realistic is this coup is specially considering taking into account realities that we are living in in the post-war forced car about war situation in the country i think we would not have gotten to this point if at an earlier stage after the trilateral agreement signed or announcements signed on november 9th royal moves were taken by the prime minister and the ruling party and i think this crisis or another way of handling this issue could be already there if there were quicker moves resignations could

have helped keeping the same party in line but changing some of the top leadership could be a solution which didn't happen before these now how realistic is this coup i'm not sure about it what are the generals is there a hole in the country i don't think so however one thing is very clear it is that armenia has never faced a situation like this we have no history of coups in the last 30 years and this is a very this is a for very 1st time that we are hearing evidence of anything that relates to the coup has not been published yet i assume and i hope that the administration will actually clearly it's. splaying to the public what who and when who was trying to do what was there any group within the military within the security administration that was trying to take over power by force ok was there a threat at any generals could come together and decide to make arrests or anything these are issues and questions that are out there and i haven't heard much response

and i expect and i hope that my friend and colleague hama's us may address this speaking of him as asked what do you make that of the suggestions and the sentiment we sometimes hear from armenians that hey the country doesn't have a history of coups as are some pointed out this might be more of a smokescreen by the prime minister to stay in power and ignore the calls for his resignation but. few facts truth be established before going into the us because the assessment of their ready us nor military involvement in all it is in our new history in that they remove the comment because ringback our so her isn't as a as a rigorous proof remember our for example army was part was this dislocated into the character of irony and peace will demonstrate ringback

that most dangerous this 1st. human those were lost in 2004 so. know that your your example is different around. well just in light of the saying around are there is a go go ahead go ahead for a quick 2nd arson and then we'll give him as aspen opportunity and i think i didn't mean to interrupt just wanted to make it clear i did not say we did not have any military involvement in politics what i said is we didn't we don't have a cooties 3 ok all right how does that continue the thought well. in the sense there yes general stay over the government. issues there is through it is important that we know that. because again i don't think the set of this is not about the naming particular names it is about state institutions true earth remain reading they urge wrote

a response ok. allow me to jump in i was efficient if the prime minister wants to preserve state institutions in these really worried why not at the very least if he doesn't want to resign why not have called a snap election it was clear that there was a question mark over his popularity after the war wonder snap they couldn't have it all in. thank you for this very important question because it should be clarified that that baby in december it was announced by the prime minister there that. as a. representative they were leader of the ruling r e he opens up because of the issues on the possibilities of organise and stubbly for snow. and during the preceding 2 months there were discussions speak number of our parliamentary parties and extra parliamentary parties but what is important to recognize that the parties that are called for his

resignation that are united and organized continue street protests and democracy rhetorical aides eat those are the parties that rejected this of the unity moreover they don't only spoke against the snap elections but also their demand is. of prime minister and the point of their own candidate has not support within the party. ok. let me take that it's clear that even if we recognize this is a political crisis the way forward in this the crisis should be democratic ok and organisational snap elections is something that was also mentioned during a guest today read by prime minister that we are a lot of forms of issues we just need to sit down in a civilized way ever dialogue. this that it is open to any party

understand timeline or a stable reliable wasn't done let's get in that is there let's get to some of the or at home is asking let's give him an a chance to come in on that go ahead have an. they like this is the classical way of showing how democracy works and you know i mean it when instead of respecting each other time having a proper that we would. occupy the whole time of darkness and 1st of all presenting know the whole thing formation in the parliamentary democracy. there are many times when i'm prime ministers resigning and you are not going today election and 2nd if you wish to go to election as i remember one of the leaders of ruling party says that whether drunk team and wants back in 2800 november you shows the best short is make an easy or go to day election then just simply do eat

not wait or not blame dogs there's just inclement because you have promises to your waters and not to the just simply opposition parties have let me present as well if i may jump in there as well for you and ask you how would you respond though to the suggestion that the reason that the opposition wants him to once the prime minister to resign and want to come together and figure out the next leader without elections is because they know they don't know the political turn it is to the prime minister and no they don't have enough popularity the prime minister's popularity so the narrative goes may have sunk but the alternative is no they are even less popular. you know it's the popularity or the carrabba's issue and the cup it's a relation of the pot fail to gwar. in our soccer republic

brought to the situation that we don't have the relay popularity of the whole ruling party but the issue is not on this side something should fund as minister farrakhan said that if the ruling party will manage it but by its. proper resignation a process that will have a totally different process but now we need to also understand that it's now very emotional time and hate speech is not just simply appear south of november 9th but it has been permanently for the last. 2 years in armenia and this develops situation when i don't think that going to extremes and all over the near re-election even now is the right position i can see that we are facing many many crises in our media in the future starting from a cannot make and they got from the psych now logical wants and we need to overcome the crisis off the bit being ready to make it proper lection all right that we

again i think that this issue would be decided by the political parties consensus negotiate and joint together unified decision or ottoman should become the place or the discussion all right let me let me bring in just got a few minutes left office and we've discussed whether this is political opportunism on the part of the prime minister on the part of his opponents. ought to shift the discussion when asked how much political opportunism is going on regionally and internationally when it comes to the alliance with with russia in particular do you think that russia sees an opportunity here for a weakened prime minister who when he 1st came to power he came to power on the back of the velvet revolution that was unseating people who were seen as closer to the russian alliance. the i know we have we're short of time and i'll try to i'll

get to the question right away just want to make a comment i fully agree with hamas us on the democratic path of solving the issue and solving it in a civilized manner again just to really to rate calling for a coup is a very serious attention drawer and i think what i was trying to say is we expect more detail being from ation about was trying to do this and when and what time and that's what i meant however involvement of the military we've seen in the country of course and especially in 2008 when the ruling regime that is actually in the opposition now in use the military to a stop us yourself and myself in the streets fully agree more or has us i will remind that to 2013 just hours before the resignation of their circassian their peacekeepers came out and were protesting in the military uniform which we were trying to prevent because we didn't want the tradition to become part of our into us our running very low on time very quick larger job job geopolitics and the

regional development it is becoming a textbook example that in the former soviet space any country or nation that aspires democracy is being punished and that punished punishment is very popular and in that respect yes we have suffered that which is a very unfortunate and a sad and an extremely deeply traumatizing reality that we're dealing with we have right now we understand but because we've got a minute left want to quickly get the reaction of the other 2 guests if i can in 20 seconds has asked do you agree with that analysis which our son has just articulated that very quickly in 20 seconds or so those rules i was not there were 2 that are 101 of the former soviet republic aspires for democracy is punished in other words that there is a bit of geopolitics going on to weaken a president who unseated allies of of a. bigger neighbor this is this is a this is

a complete range there are many that. do all the aids it's very little. military. there in meaning that it was used in reading their rights and responsibilities. or right now i think we're just stuck we've got 20 seconds left i'm sorry but i want to give try to be fair as possible 20 seconds for teven. first of we don't have military coups here is spoken with different issue but what is referring to the sure the original political yes it's has been turkey and now is over budget who started initiated the war and the beginning between no bones of armenians and turks in the region is coming from one in genocide that's why we need or i will hear that they have been and we are now on a little bit off topic now we don't have one representing that side by the others are from her own as i. will let's leave that for another discussion another time

with other people to join a battle really i'm afraid we are we are out of time guests. for we are out of time going to have to thank our guests than there liane are some hottie and haven't posse and thank you to fortune you can see the show again any time by visiting our website al-jazeera dot com for further discussion head over to our facebook page that's facebook dot com ford slash a.j. inside story you can also join the conversation on twitter our handle is and a.j. inside story from me sam is a them and the whole team here for now a bite. i.

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