“Recently, we have been periodically asked whether we are the opposition now or not.

In this regard, I want to express a few thoughts.

Firstly, at the elections on June 20, clear alternatives were offered to citizens, but the people, being well acquainted with all the forces and their agendas, elected the parliament that we have today. Thus, the institutional powers of the counterweight to the authorities, according to the results of those elections and according to the will of the people, are now carried by other forces.

Until August 2021, “Bright Armenia” was a parliamentary opposition, which for us meant being a conventional opposition. 

In many issues, yes, we are in opposition to the authorities, but there are issues in which we don’t see the point of opposing. Our political activity is based on ideas, not on the protection of money stolen by someone.

In this matter, no one can keep us from telling the truth. Regardless of the situation, we always said what we thought. Our parliamentary activity was carried out in the following way: if we were against something, we explained why we were against, if necessary, presented proposals, if we were in favor of something, we stated that we were against and explained why.

For example, why resist the settlement of Armenian-Turkish relations, if the issue has been on our foreign policy agenda since independence and has not yet been resolved?

Or why resist the peace agenda? Is the agenda of a new war more oppositional position for politicians?

Thus, we stand for peace and normalization of relations and oppose new adventures, we stand for the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict within the framework of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-chairs,” Edmon Marukyan wrote on Facebook.