AAC has no clients any longer - MP

ArmInfo.  Among the common interests of the current Catholicos of All Armenians Garegin II and the former criminal leaders of Armenia was and is the desire to  infringe on the rights of the Armenian people. This was written on  his Facebook account by the head of the faction of the National  Assembly of the RA ruling party "Civil Contract" Hayk Konjoryan. 

According to him, the current situation allowed the exploitation of  the people both physically and spiritually. "This is what they have  been doing for decades.

It was a simple political barter: the thieves gave Garegin and his  entourage financial privileges and turned a blind eye to the events  taking place in the country, and Garegin anointed presidents who had  no popular legitimacy. You give me money and privileges, I give you  legitimacy. But the people have freed themselves from the chains of  subordination, the country no longer has an object of exploitation  for the criminal alliance. On the other hand, in Armenia there is a  government whose legitimacy comes from the people and only from the  people. This is why the spiritual leaders of the Church do not find  their place in democratic Armenia: their product no longer has a  buyer, since there is no longer an illegitimate government, nor a  subject people," the MP wrote.

He added that the power in the country belongs to the people, and the  sooner the holy fathers understand this, the less legitimacy they  will lose in spiritual leadership.

The Armenian authorities are not giving up their attempts to remove  Garegin II from the post of Catholicos of All Armenians. Today, RA  Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan once again accused the Catholicos of  violating his vow of celibacy. For this reason, he called for the  resignation of Garegin II.

On May 29, at a government meeting, the Prime Minister said that  Armenian churches resemble "closets filled with junk." The next day,  he published a harsh post on social networks, in which he used rude  language towards the hierarchs of the Armenian Apostolic Church and  accused one of the archbishops of sexual promiscuity. At the same  time, the Prime Minister demanded that all priests who violated their  vow of celibacy be defrocked. The Prime Minister's wife Anna Hakobyan  made similar attacks, calling the Patriarch "the main mafioso" and  those who criticized the "silencing" of churches "the main pedophiles  of the country." These statements provoked a sharp reaction from the  clergy.  Against the backdrop of the scandal, the Prime Minister  proposed changing the procedure for electing the head of the AAC so  that the state would have a decisive vote in the elections, and  candidates would undergo an ethics check.