More than 67% of respondents do not trust Nikol Pashinyan’s
answers given during his press conference. Head of MPG – Gallup International
Association in Armenia Aram Navasardyan said this at the press conference.
People were first asked if they had watched the prime
minister’s press conference that took place on July 25. Sixty-five percent of
the respondents answered in the affirmative, 35% in the negative.
“The next question was how much they trust Nikol Pashinyan’s
answers. According to the survey, 16.1% of the respondents completely trust,
14.5% rather trust, 13.1% rather do not trust, 54.4% do not trust at all and
1.8% found it difficult to answer. As we can see, more than 67% of the
respondents have no trust in Pashinyan’s answers. In fact, this is quite a
large percentage,” Navasardyan noted.
People were asked if today there are political prisoners in
Armenia or not. Thus, 47.2% answered in the affirmative, 31.1% answered in the
negative and 22.7% found it difficult to answer.
“The index has never been so high, at least in the past 13
years, when we have been conducting surveys on political issues. Moreover, we
asked 47.2% of the respondents to mention the names of political prisoners, if
there are any. In response, 43.9% mentioned Armen Ashotyan, 23.7% the leader of
the Public Voice party, Artak Galstyan, 24.5% the elected Mayor of Vanadzor,
Mamikon Aslanyan, 5.2% mentioned names of other people and 39.7% found it
difficult to give certain names,” he said.
The next question was about the major problems facing the
country. With this regard, the majority of the answers were about security
issues. Thus, for 32.4% the most serious problem facing Armenia is the threat
of war, for 30.7% the Nagorno-Karabakh issue, for 30.4% security issues, for
27.8% border issues. Other problems were also mentioned, namely the economic
situation, unemployment, inflation, return of POWs, change of power, etc.
When asked if it is acceptable for them that the population
of Artsakh is given status of national minority within Azerbaijan, 88.8% of the
respondents answered in the negative, noting that it is absolutely
unacceptable.
