Attack on Hayrikyan had no political undertone - expert

An attack on Paruyr Hayrikyan was aimed not only against a presidential candidate and a politician but against Armenian statehood, President Serzh Sargsyan said at the hospital where Hayrikyan is recovering.

“Those standing behind the crime obviously had the goal of affecting the natural course of the electoral process. We are confident that the law enforcers will do their best to solve the case,” Sargsyan told reporters.

President Sargsyan expressed confidence that Hayrikyan would recover soon.

Political analyst and deputy head of the Post-Soviet States Research Centre Alexander Karavayev does not believe that the attack had a political undertone. Hayrikyan wasn't a serious competitor to Sarsgyan, the expert believes.