During a campaign meeting with voters in Vardenis, the PM candidate of the "Armenia" alliance, Armenia's second president Robert Kocharyan talked about the problems Armenia is facing today.

"The problems the country's facing can be divided into three groups. The first group is for security issues, the second is related to the economic situation. We have an economic crisis that will deepen, as there is an increase in unemployment, poverty, and emigration. The third group of problems is about the internal political situation. If it wasn't for the internal political crisis, there would be no snap elections," Kocharyan said. 

One of the citizens talked about the issue of reopening the Ministry of Agriculture and mentioned that he had brought a reaping hook against the hammer ( which Nikol Pashinyan uses during his electoral campaign, saying that with the help of the hammer and the steel mandate he is going to establish order in the country) so that Kocharyan could restore the Ministry of Agriculture and "reap the political weeds".

Robert Kocharyan joked that when he first saw the reaping hook, he got scared and thought that it could be an instrument for castration. He promised to use the tool only for his own purpose.