Nikol Pashinyan will soon follow His Holiness: Hrant Melik-Shahnazaryan

Political scientist Hrant Melik-Shahnazaryan wrote:

"Nikol Pashinyan will soon go after His Holiness. I don't want to say anything sinister, but I think that Nikol may achieve his goal. In any case, the Church's reaction to the arrest of Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan and the deportation of supporters of the Holy Struggle, unfortunately, does not give reason to think otherwise. Dozens of clergy should have been in front of the court yesterday. Archbishops, archbishops, priests... But they were not there. Instead, the Supreme Spiritual Council yesterday condemned "the intention to artificially connect the aforementioned process with the Church and to exploit the name of the Mother See."

Such is the reality of our days. And one weakness leads to another. It is the turn of the Church, of His Holiness the Patriarch...

"Of course, it is our duty to do everything so that Nikol is defeated in this war unleashed against the Church. And we will definitely do everything. But, unfortunately, from a much weaker position than we had yesterday. Because in our country they are arresting an archbishop, and this is how the Church is reacting."