Doctor who got into argument with Armenia PM is ordered to be fired
Arpine Soghoyan, the woman who argued with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan during the ruling party’s election campaign rally in Yerevan’s Arabkir administrative district Monday, is wanted to be dismissed from Yerevan Polyclinic No. 16, where she works as an obstetrician-gynecologist.
According to Armenian News-NEWS.am’s information, Soghoyan she was urged to resign on her own request, but she did not accept the offer, and said, “If you want, fire [me].”
According to our information, the dismissal order came from the Yerevan city hall.
Yerevan mayor Tigran Avinyan was there at the time of the incident, and he knows this doctor.
As reported earlier, during the ruling party’s election campaign in the Arabkir administrative district of Yerevan Monday, an incident occurred between Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and a doctor from originally Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh). The woman, obstetrician-gynecologist Arpine Soghoyan, the sister of military doctor Hrant Papikyan who went missing during the 44-day war in 2020, approached Pashinyan and said that the latter had stolen her homeland. Pashinyan lost his temper, started shouting, and made threats against the former presidents of Armenia Robert Kocharyan and Serzh Sargsyan, as well as Strong Armenia bloc PM candidate Samvel Karapetyan, and Prosperous Armenia Party leader Gagik Tsarukyan. Moreover, he specifically targeted ex-President Robert Kocharyan as a former Artsakh resident, although the woman had not said in any way what her political preferences were.
