More than 54% of Armenian citizens do not trust Prime Minister Pashinyan

Over 54% of Armenian citizens do not trust the policies of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and the population is equally skeptical about the activities of President Vahagn Khachaturyan, the parliament and the government, according to the representative office of the sociological service Gallup International in the republic, Report informs via TASS.

"20.4% of respondents trust Nikol Pashinyan completely, 13.2% rather trust him, 18.6% rather distrust him, 35.5% don’t trust him at all, 12.3% found it difficult to answer. It turns out that 54.1% of the country’s population does not trust him," noted the head of the representative office, sociologist Aram Navasardyan.

The majority of the population - 53.7% - also does not approve of the activities of President Vahagn Khachaturyan, 64.2% does not approve of the actvities of the parliament and 57.7% does not approve of the activities of the government.

However, if early parliamentary elections are held next Sunday, then 15.6% of respondents will vote for Pashinyan’s Civil Contract party, while his main opponent, the Armenia bloc of second president Robert Kocharyan, will receive only 4.7% of votes.

According to a social survey, 23.5% of the population of Armenia will not go to the polls at all, and 30.1% have not yet decided who they will vote for.