Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s repeated promises to fight corruption through reforms in the country’s economic model do not offer sufficient guarantees for eradicating the problem, according to Varuzhan Hoktanyan, the executive director of Transparency International (anti-corruption center based in Yerevan).
Commenting on the recent political developments at a news conference, Hoktanyan said he treats the entire process as a change of ideas rather than individual actors.
As a major efforts towards speeding up the process, he highlighted particularly the need of snap parliamentary elections. “Snap elections are increasingly gaining importance, so the sooner they are conducted the better. Fight against corruption is important also internationally, i.
e. – in terms of attracting foreign investments,” he said, citing US President Donald Trump’s congratulatory address to the newly elected premier (which addressed, among other things, the urgent need to successfully combat corruption).
Asked whether connections with business circles could be an impediment (as was the case with the Republican Party, which had close contacts with entrepreneurs owning major businesses), Hoktanyan admitted the existing risks.
“Pashinyan must adopt a principled stance to spearhead a tight campaign against corruption,” he added.
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