Dear Vice Presidents of the National Assembly,
Cabinet members,
Dear MPs,
Dear students,
Dear attendees,
Dear people,

It is already the third day, we are discussing the 2025 report on the implementation of the Government Program for 2021-2026, and as a result of the discussion, the discussion developed, grew, became what is called the former-present debate. This happened, and moreover, it happened due to unforeseen circumstances. To be honest, it was the first time I've seen such a scene, maybe I haven't noticed it before, it happened due to very random circumstances, because while presenting the report, I see some people coming in through that door, doing some action, going out again. I say, what's this, people, what's this flow about, I've never seen anything like that? I've been a deputy for six years, prime minister for eight years, at least I didn't notice it, maybe there was something like that, but I didn't notice it. I was told people come to register to get a salary. These people have been denouncing us for eight years for bonuses, for I don't know what, but they come to register secretly and go away. Let's say they get a few more cents, and as a result, I noted it, spoke out, they had to come later and participate in the speeches part, and by participating in the speeches part, we ended up with the former-present debate.

It is a fact, although I have said many times before from this podium that we should get out of that debate, but this debate revealed another layer, at least for me, which I had not looked at from that perspective before, had not noticed, because we talk so much about the three-headed party of war, but this discussion also made it obvious and revealed nuances that the three-headed party of war is in fact exactly the same as the three-headed party of the past, because what we call today the three-headed party of war, which is submitting a bid for the 2026 parliamentary elections, is precisely the coalition of the years of Robert Kocharyan's rule. The Prosperous Armenia Party was in that coalition, the Dashnaktsutyun was in that coalition, and the Republican Party was in that coalition.

Now everything is clear with Dashnaktsutyun, the Republican and Prosperous Armenia parties, but the Republican Party, as you may remember, changed its tactics from the previous parliamentary elections. During the previous parliamentary elections they were called ''I have honor'', now they have become ''Strong Armenia''. By the way, the fact that “Strong Armenia” and “The Republican” are the same party is evidenced by that Serzh Sargsyan and others overtly expressed their support. But I think the picture was completed by the "navigator" of the procession - the one who was standing on the car's frame - we forgot, but he was the leader of the Republican Party faction and the chief of Serzh Sargsyan's staff. Now I reiterate, if you look at the lists of those three, “Strong Armenia”, Armenia Aliance, Dashnaktsutyun and Prosperous Armenia, we will see that the cards are mixed in the logic of poker and distrubuted among themselves. And now they have such combinations that is even hard to imagine. Someone who used to be here, later went there and now is somewhere else. That is, we must note that when they say that the parliamentary elections of 2026 are the "last chance", then this is the last chance for the coalition that existed during Kocharyan and Sargsyan. But I also want to say that this, dear people, emphasizes even more the need to overcome this dispute about "former" and "present".

And this is very important. And now it is obvious that there is only one way to overcome it, there is only one option to overcome this debate. For this, in the 2026 parliamentary elections, the “Strong Armenia”, the Armenia Alliance and the Prosperous Armenia Party must not overcome the passing threshold, that is, not overcome, not collect enough votes to pass into parliament. And this is becoming a more realistic, political issue every day, and that realism just radiated from this podium. Why? Because first of all, those political forces that come forward, calling the people scum, dogs, beggars. In other words, what are they doing, throwing down a challenge that the person who votes for them must declare himself as scum, dog, beggar? This is their challenge. And the citizen of Armenia must decide whether to accept that challenge or not.

There is a person, a citizen of 63 countries, who says, "I am sure that I will become prime minister." So I am saying two things: he is not participating in the elections, he is not a candidate for prime minister, nor a candidate for deputy, but he is sure that he will win. What about those who are participating, what would they say? That is, de jure they are both deputies, they are participating, they are both candidates for deputy, and for prime minister, what should they say? There is a different problem here. And they never refer to the people. They say, "We're confident we'll win," but there's not a single sentence about "we're confident our people will come and vote for us." He was told from somewhere, he was sent, they said go and...but this young man simply doesn't understand. Now—and I say this, even though they're offended—he's becoming more and more of a "homeless person" with each passing day, and it's not our fault, and this process will continue.

The other factor for which these forces should not overcome the threshold. They come and announce from this podium that the pensions have not been increased.

660 thousand citizens of the Republic of Armenia have already received that increased pension, while they come and speak from this podium the opposite. How can such a political force get a vote at all? They come and speak from this podium that in essence, the health insurance system, although we have announced that it has been introduced, is a failed system. Yesterday they were talking here, I wanted to understand what these people are talking about. That is, to come, tell the people that they are a scums, dogs, beggars, then start saying, refusing obvious things and then go and overcome the threshold, sorry, my political sense allows me to insist that if we present this picture more openly, we will really overcome this former-present debate.

In fact, I understood that we are not building 300 schools, I understood that we are not building schools at all, that we are closing schools. You know what, there is a very important circumstance there. When was the last time they were in those schools that they say we are closing, in those so-called schools? But they need the so-called schools, because they need our children to spend 10 years in those schools, so that they do not receive an education, so that as a result they are even deprived of the opportunity to have pants, so that as a result the hope of these children having pants lies with them, those who distribute electoral bribes, so that in the end they throw disposable pants in the faces of these children, and call them scums and beggars from their back.

They need these so-called ruins because a graduate of such a school can basically only be a laborer, who in their brigades, in Kaluga or various other places, will sleep under cars and train cars, not wash for months... And do you know why these guys are in tracksuits? Because you took them away to work and sent them back in those tracksuits, so that they would serve you in foreign countries, not knowing a word of Russian, so that they would have no opportunity to free themselves from the slavery you built, so that they could not even breathe without your permission. And at the end, you still call these guys "scums," "beggars." Of course you need them!

Let's go to the school we built, the children who graduated from those schools we built will teach you a lesson, you have no chance at all in the society that has been formed. And kindergartens, the generation grew up in mud, in mud in the truest sense of the word, so you have to keep and raise children in mud so that in the end you have the opportunity to say, "dog and shangyal", because the children who enter the kindergarten we built today and enter the school we built today, you have no chance in the society of children who graduate from that school, you cannot have any other status than dog and shangyal. Who are you in general, I say to the three-headed, four-headed parties of that war, plus the profane daredevils, who are you in general, what do you represent? Do you have a chance in a society where you can keep children in mud, In a society where children don't have pants and don't have a chance to have pants. This is the society you built and dreamed of.

And what about kindergartens. The generation grew up in the filth, in the truest sense of the word, you need to keep and raise children in the filth, so that in the end you will have the opportunity to say: dog and scum, because the children who enter the kindergarten we built today and the school we built today, you have no chance in the society of children who come out of that school, you cannot have any other status than dog and scums. Who are you? I appeal to these three-headed, four-headed war parties, plus these blasphemous clergy—who are you, what do you represent? You only have a chance in a society where you are able keep children in filth, in a society where children have no pants and no chance of having them. This is the society you have built and desired.

One more thing, Mr. Ohanyan, you are appealing to the public from this podium. A thousand apologies, who is interested in your appeal, in general? If your appeal were interesting to anyone, they would at least include your political force in its list in some way. I ask you to constantly appeal to the public, constantly, the more you appeal, the more your political force's chances of not making it to parliament will increase. That podcast, in general, is a gift, how can we make them do a little more, because the more they do, the less their chances of appearing in parliament will decrease.

Now they have come and talk about peace. First of all, what have these people proven again? They came, they said that the peace that has been established is not beneficial to Armenia, it does not stem from Armenia's interests, they say, well, we are not against peace, but they say, that peace was during our time...

Let's look at what peace was during their time. 1998: 24 victims of Armenia-Azerbaijan skirmishes, 1999: 12 victims of skirmishes, 2000: 12 victims of skirmishes, 2001: 3 victims on the border, 2002: 7 victims, 2003: 11 victims, 2004: 8 victims, 2005: 14 victims, 2006: 7 victims, 2007: 7 victims, 2008: 5 victims, 2009: 6 victims, 2010: 11 victims, 2011: 10 victims, 2012: 13 victims, 2013: 6 victims, 2014: 26 victims, 2015: 38 victims, 2016: 22 victims, 2017: 22 victims.

This is the peace they want. Now so much has been said about 2020, and we never… It’s you who constantly want to add the number of victims by 1000, 2000, 3000. They say, why did you say “Artsakh is Armenia and that’s it?” I once touched on that topic at our party conference, but there is also a reality, dear colleagues, since 1994, since 1995, the Republic of Armenia, as a state, has been standing on the same point for 25 years. And that point has been a deadlock. Now there’s something new, these people haven’t done anything. They came to the investigative commission: "We'll uncover this," "negotiation documents on the Karabakh issue"... We published [documents] on the Karabakh issue... Now they're picking on the investigative commission's report. Tell me, don't you realize that this, too, will be published in some form? Why do you keep stepping on this rake?

Yes, we have faced that challenge. In the 30 years of independence, the entire state system has worked with the logic that Artsakh is Armenia. That issue has been resolved, there is no problem, everything is normal. We came to face that reality, to understand what is happening. And we have started asking questions and we have started pursuing those questions, and we have started finding the answers to those questions. And it is in pursuing the answers to those questions that we have understood that we are in a trap, that we need to get out of that trap, because if we do not get out of that trap, we will lose the state.

Yes, I want to say, dear colleagues, it must be said that we are a very effective government, because we have brought our country out of the trap, the trap into which we entered with the Karabakh movement and into which the three-headed war parties and their satellites have constantly brought us and kept us in a deadlock, explaining absolutely everything with that. We have brought our country out of the deadlock. This requires courage, and we have shown that courage. Mr. Khachatryan says, “the war ends when the cause of the war is resolved…”, or some such wording is used. That is what we say, the cause of the war was the Karabakh movement. There is no Karabakh movement, therefore there is no war. This is the whole issue. And yes, we have consciously followed that path.

Now they are taking a line about my pro-Turkishness and my pro-Azerbaijaniness, because these people say, look what they are saying, they say, we are not against peace. They have never been against peace, but they have always discussed peace thousands of kilometers away from the region. Do you understand? Thousands of kilometers away from the region, in Moscow, Brussels, other places, Key West, etc. I repeat, our idea of peace is that we have a lasting and reliable peace with Australia. But peace is what you have in your region. How do you imagine peace by looking for it outside the region? That is war, that is war in itself. We had the courage to go and talk.

They say something else. They say Pashinyan has agreements. Isn't it clear that we have agreements? Those agreements have been signed, initialed, and some of those agreements have been ratified. That's the point, you and your entire policy are against those agreements, which are the cornerstone, the foundation of peace and stability. That foundation, if pulled out from under you, will cause peace and stability to collapse. There is no threat there, there is nothing to threaten. That is very simple, very ordinary logic.

And yes, in these elections the people must stand up for peace also with that logic, to make clear that the people of the Republic of Armenia support this policy, stand up for this policy. Moreover, I say, I have never had and do not have any agreements except those publicly announced and written. Yes, the axis and the subtlety is precisely that: all agreements have been reached and these agreements have been published. Come on, talk about the content of the agreements. They have nothing to say.

They filed a lawsuit: they say they're not allowed to read the text of the peace agreement. They were allowed to read it several times—they went and read it. They went, read it, came out, and said something completely different. Now it's all public. Does anyone remember when was the last time for the opposition to come to this podium, pick up the text of the peace agreement or declaration, and start reading it line by line, analyzing it? When? Did that even happen? Before it was published, while it was confidential, they said whatever they wanted, but as soon as it was published, the matter was closed. The same thing with the negotiating documents: now they've been published. You said, "Publish them." When have you ever seen the opposition here, at this podium, or publicly, stand and say, "Document number one, look what's written here?"

In essence, as a result of this discussion, two things were recorded: first, that reviewing peace is the main and key task of the three-headed war party, which is formed from representatives of the former government. Now a new panic has begun. Once they talked about the army, saying we are defenseless, borders… Now we say, okay, we will show the people. Now they've started saying: "What are they going to show? No, they won't. No, they will show it, but it won't be the same, they'll show something else. What's all the fuss about? Why are you showing something new? Show something old. Show I don't know what. Show this..." We're showing this so that we can ultimately provide a clear answer to all your false claims about the national debt. That's why we're showing it.

And we also show it so that it becomes a factor that you, the "Armenia" bloc, the strong Republican Party and the Prosperous Armenia Party, do not enter parliament, that they do not collect the necessary quantity of votes to become a parliamentary party, because they cannot throw the people into a whirlpool of misinformation in such a brazen way, through hybrid disinformation, and appear in parliament again. That would be a very bad thing.

I can't believe it, I'm sorry, that the "Strong Armenia", the "Armenia Alliance, the strong Republican Party and the Prosperous Armenia Party can pass into parliament, it would mean that I think that there are so many filthy people in the Republic of Armenia who can vote for them. I'm telling you seriously, dear colleagues. If there is an idea in our public discourse that the strong Republican Party, the Armenia Alliance and the Prosperous Armenia Party can pass into parliament, it is a disrespectful attitude towards the citizens of the Republic of Armenia. Whoever thinks that these three political forces can pass into parliament, it is a disrespectful attitude. Yes, the people decide... That's what I'm saying, a person with a passport from 62 countries says, "I will become prime minister." Have you seen them ever talking about the people? They never speak about people. And have you seen us ever say anything without referring to the people? We say, "Dear people, stand up for peace." The "Civil Contract" party doesn't just need to form a parliamentary majority, it needs to form a Constitutional majority so that the process of standing up for peace can go to the end. And they say, "We are confident, we will do this, we will do that," and they talk about scums and dogs.

This political contrast is what should condition the upcoming political discourse. I believe that the meaning of the upcoming political processes should be the following: the people should stand up for peace and the people should send the dogs and scoundrels of the three-headed party of war, the three-headed party of the former government, and the political scoundrels out of politics forever.

By the way, I should say that yesterday, in the case of confiscation of illegal property, I read this morning, the Court of Cassation of the Republic of Armenia made the first precedent-setting decision and I am convinced that with this, the process of becoming homeless of the circles known to you becomes irreversible. Thank you.