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The Armenian National Assembly kicked off its regular sitting on Tuesday morning to debate on the government’s action plan approved during the Cabinet meeting on 8 February.

Before introducing the government program to the lawmakers, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan first congratulated the MPs on the December 9 snap elections.

“Those elections were exceptional in the history of the Third Republic, as they were assessed as free, fair, competitive, transparent and democratic by all the local and international election observation missions, international organizations and the international community in general. The Armenian society gave the same assessment,” the PM said.

He stressed the December 9 elections were the first in the history of Armenia the outcomes of which were challenged nether at the Constitutional Court nor publicly.

“Therefore, we have a parliament and a government having an unprecedented high level of legitimacy. We can say for the record that the revolutionary phase in Armenia concluded with the conduct of early parliamentary elections in December, the changes that occurred in the country became irreversible,” Pashinyan said.

Meantime, he added, this does not mean that the political system established in Armenia is flawless and doesn’t need serious reforms.

“This simply means that there cannot be a turning back to the previous criminal-oligarchic regime, and we only need to free our homeland from the last remaining bits of the criminal-oligarchic and corrupt regime,” he said.