Overview
- Sargis Karapetyan endorsed creating a government body on the Triangle podcast after a guest linked women’s political engagement to sexual dissatisfaction.
- He framed the idea as a way to ensure “no unsatisfied women” and to address Armenia’s falling birth rate, but he offered no concrete policy details.
- Civil Contract MP Sona Ghazaryan condemned the comments as “pure sexism,” and feminist voices on social media criticized the proposal.
- Karapetyan later said his words were taken out of context and posted a video asserting he was speaking openly about social problems and demographic decline.
- The dispute arrives as Strong Armenia polls second before a February 12 prime‑minister candidate announcement and June parliamentary elections, and Karapetyan is the son of businessman Samvel Karapetyan, who faces charges he denies.