Armenia Elections Get Personal as Premier Offers Son for POWs
- Pashinyan says he’d swap son for soldiers held by Azerbaijan
- Rivals trade jibes ahead of June 20 elections after war defeat
Nikol Pashinyan
Photographer: Tigran Mehrabyan/AFP/Getty Images
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Campaigning in Armenia’s parliamentary elections is turning personal as rivals play one-upmanship with the fate of soldiers held as prisoners of war by Azerbaijan to attack one another.
When acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan told a campaign rally the captives would “forgive” a delay of one or two months in securing their return, ex-President Serzh Sargsyan retorted that he should offer his son to Azerbaijan in exchange for some of the prisoners.