The pre-election campaign for the RA National Assembly elections to be held on June 7 has entered an active phase. 19 political alliances and parties have applied to participate in the elections, but according to forecasts, the main battle in these elections will be between the party led by Nikol Pashinyan, the CP, which is the current government, and three or four opposition forces. 168 TVof Revue speaking about the course of the pre-election campaign on the air of the program, civil technologist Vigen Hakobyan emphasizes that the main task of the opposition in these elections is to ensure a high percentage of voter participation.

The civil technologist also added that if 55-60 percent of citizens with the right to vote participate in the voting, then the chances of the government’s re-establishment will decrease significantly.

“This is elementary arithmetic. In general, what is the government, especially this government, which has already objectively tired the society?

Any government gets tired of a significant part of the society after a couple of terms. It is no coincidence that in almost all countries where the government is formed through electoral processes, they usually do not elect the same person for more than two terms, because it is objectively also a psychological problem.

In this sense, even if we consider that Nikol Pashinyan and his teammates are an “ideal” government that does their work with 100% efficiency, a significant part of the society will already want changes, but since this government can be rated diametrically opposite, it is not working efficiently, and the activities of its administration have had destructive consequences, therefore, objective assessments and the expectation of changes are also added to this,” commented Vigen Hakobyan.

According to him, with the participation of about 1.5 million people in the NA elections, Nikol Pashinyan’s electorate is not enough for re-election.

«If there is more than 55 percent participation in these elections, Nikol Pashinyan’s power is in serious danger. The higher the turnout, the more catastrophic the results can be for the governmentVigen Hakobyan thinks.

The political scientist continues. “That’s why Pashinyan turns the elections into a farce, a fight of tongues and tries to “disgust” the voters with his behavior, hate speech, insulting speeches and threats and make the election process less serious so that people do not go to the polls.

It is in this light that the civil technologist evaluates Nikol Pashinyan’s, to put it mildly, jerky behavior in recent days. According to Hakobyan, this is due to the fact that Nikol Pashinyan simply faced the reality, seeing the attitude of people during the campaign. According to the gas technologist, Pashinyan is beginning to feel that the situation is difficult.

«Nikol Pashinyan’s vocabulary, this hysteria, etc., etc. are due to this. Rude behavior is putting it mildly. In general, that vocabulary, behavior, dragging women, in my opinion, is a civilizational problem. The confrontation with reality is added to this, especially in big cities: Yerevan, Gyumri, Vanadzor.

Its culmination was, of course, Arabkir Day. That day was literally stressful for Nikol Pashinyan. He begins to feel that the situation is quite serious, more serious than they imagined, and that’s where this jerky behavior comes from, losing control, I think spontaneous declarations of “I’m going to kill”, “I’m going to catch”, “I’m going to kill”, accusing everyone of being “treason” and “foreign agents”.“, commented the civil technologist.

According to Vigen Hakobyan, Nikol Pashinyan made a gross mistake, even a mistake of strategic importance, by losing his self-control.

«In any case, he really gave the opposition a chance, and the opposition should take advantage of those mistakes. Only the visual demonstration of all this can cause protestant moods among the same apathetic “coffee drinkers”, because here a civilized protest arises. For example, what happened in Arabkir was a civilized protest»։

Vigen Hakobyan also spoke about the topic of negotiations between the United States, China and Russia and the formation of a new world order, referring to both the Trump-Xi Jinping talks that took place in Beijing last week, as well as the official visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin to China and the meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and President Xi Jinping of the People’s Republic of China in Beijing.declaration on the creation of a multipolar worldto the signing.

Full interview in the video.

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Florists in Armenia, in particular, small and medium-sized ones, will face a problem again from tomorrow, because the Russian Federation, “Rosselkhoznadzor”, restricts the import of flowers from Armenia, starting from May 22.

“Despite the guarantees provided by the RA Ministry of Education, quarantine plants for the Ministry of Agriculture continue to be found. During the importation of 96.2 million flowers and plants, 135 such cases were recorded, which is 77 percent of the total cases detected in the entire year 2025. noted “Rosselkhoznadzor”.

Former Deputy Minister of Agriculture Ashot Harutyunyan speaking about this problem, he noted that everyone knows where this problem comes from, i.e., it is the use of “soft power” and is a consequence of incorrect policies.

“Okay, let’s admit that there is such a problem, it means that they should have dealt with the departmental bodies in a purely professional manner, in a systematic way, especially since this problem is repeated from time to time. And if the problem is repeated from time to time, it means that there is a global professional failure, starting from the professional measures, which should be related to the protection of plants, and ending in terms of observing individual rules.

I repeat: the departmental bodies have failed, it is not necessary that all farmers and florists master the professional nuances, even more so, according to the legislation. These people should be given professional advice and support, the state should stand and support these people.” 168.amAshot Harutyunyan mentioned in a conversation with

According to him, individuals make big investments, but such issues will lead to big problems, and people, facing the fact, will go not only to bankruptcy, but also to economic destruction.

“It is an absolute failure, regardless of what the head of the departmental body will interpret or what he will say, this is about performing high-quality professional work, which is lacking at the moment, the functions are performed incompletely. The state should stand by its farmer in all respects.

There is a legislative and professional gap, at the same time, there is no appropriate support from the Government, finances have not gone in the right direction. This means that the funds saved by the state, the taxes received from pensioners and others, were unnecessarily wasted, instead of benefiting, they caused harm,” Ashot Harutyunyan emphasized.

According to our interlocutor, the problem is also related to interstate relations, on the principle of “you to me, I to you”.

“It is clear that declarations are made in different tones, in different places, from Armenia and Russia, without assessing the consequences. If such a thing is done on purpose, then the consequences will be borne by ordinary people – greenhouse owners, farmers. These are the first snowdrops of incorrect policy, the use of “soft power”. If the issues are not resolved by May 28, the tone is not changed, the EAEU regulations issues are not resolved, both behind the scenes and in the relevant meetings, at this moment, as a former official, I am warning that the consequences will be much more severe. And it will be even destructive for farmers and greenhouse owners,” Ashot Harutyunyan emphasized.

Let’s remind that after the Government session today, Minister of Economy Gevorg Papoyan, addressing the issue in a briefing with journalists, said that there are specialists from “Rosselkhoznadzor” in Armenia, who conduct studies in specific companies.

“Those are companies that were closed, if there is a positive conclusion, the possibility of export will be opened. I think they are current work situations, of course, I do not rule out that there are certain forces in Armenia that are trying to create a certain situation so that Armenian producers in Russia face problems. We receive such information regularly, but we are also able to solve such problems in parallel.” had noted he.

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168 TVof “Zara has a question” the guest of the program President of “Journalists for Human Rights” NGO, human rights defender Zhanna Aleksanyan is.

Some of Zhanna Aleksanyan’s emphasis during the interview are below:

• That person, the leader of our country, so to speak, no longer needs the law, the Constitution, because the entire law enforcement system has subjected him, and they have willingly obeyed. The law enforcement officers cannot do anything about this. that is, they can, but they don’t.

• The moral aspect is completely absent from the KP team, they broke those boundaries… For example, when we saw how the mothers in black, the relatives of the victims, were treated in “Yerablur”, that line, which had never been broken, was broken, that the mother of the missing person, the victim can be treated like this, can be dragged, can be subjected to violence, and cases can be initiated.

• They say that power is perversion, and absolute power is absolute perversion. this is exactly the case. Nikol Pashinyan decides entirely himself. The so-called law enforcement system does not exist, it is degraded, although, for example, the Prosecutor General probably feels flattered that he is degrading, and I see that he is constantly being degraded. For example, if you detain Artur Osipyan, what is that? An innocent man, openly… there is nothing, and they put that debate as the basis of the accusation. Or the case of Narek Karapetyan. Nikol Pashinyan deleted the presumption of innocence.

• I do not see that there is such a hybrid situation. The problem of getting rid of Russia, if your leadership has, say, a base in Gyumri, has Russian border guard troops, what are you fighting for? In other words, why don’t they withdraw those troops, why don’t they leave the EAEU… Yesterday, Nikol Pashinyan said that he has friendly relations with Putin, he complimented him. Pashinyan has been the most devoted to Russian politics, Russian-Turkish politics, so Pashinyan himself works for the Russians, and now you see, Armenia’s greatest dependence, as all experts report, is on Russia.

• Such a death in the pre-election period can have a very big impact on the pre-election period and the election process, and I think this silence was intentional, I have even heard opinions that the hate speech that Pashinyan spoke was the day after the death. I think Nikol Pashinyan was making noise so that the incident would be forgotten. I think that the international human rights organizations will definitely address this case in turn. A man lost his life for tearing a piece of wallpaper? He says he was aggressive, do you decide his aggressiveness? was aggressive, call 911 and how the police took him.

• After June 7, I want to wake up in an Armenia where they will fight for justice, but without blood.

Details in the video

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In the “Pressing” program Satik Seyranyan the guest political analyst Hakob Badalyan is

The main theses of the interview are below.

• This is the traditional campaign style for Pashinyan, and Prime Minister Pashinyan did not want and could not leave the opposition Pashinyan’s campaign style. The consumer of that content is his electorate, and he sells his style to them. This is his traditional way of doing things, but he switched from the original quiet tone to the traditional one because he realized that his peace is not for sale. He is solving the problem of maximum mobilization of the electorate, because he understands that his rating is such that he is far not only from the constitutional majority, but also from the numbers of 50% 1.

• Pashinyan is deliberately sharpening the Artsakh-Armenians thesis. During the metro incident, Pashinyan aggravated the situation when he realized that the person in front of him was a woman from Artsakh. He knows that he is not able to bring new votes for himself, so he does everything to keep his electorate, because he knows his electorate best.

• Nikol Pashinyan destroys moral layers. In the case of the soldier’s mother, who was burned in the free military shelter, we saw how the eyewitnesses of the incident treated her – zero sympathy. Such an immoral attitude is staged and encouraged:

• The Moldovan scenario was first used in Romania, which US Vice President Vance spoke about. This is the scenario of the European elite. Today, Europe’s relations with Georgia are quite complicated, because Georgia conducts its own national policy, Azerbaijan treats Europe as an equal, and in this case, Europe’s hope remains in Armenia, where it is possible to make political progress, taking advantage of the fact that Armenia now has a government for which staying in power has become a matter of life and death. Now, once again, Pashinyan is launching the robbery scenario, but it is already on the people the effect does not work. The role of Samvel Karapetyan is great here, he cannot be called a robber in any way. The application of the thesis of agents and spies under the European command remained. This is like a lifeline for Nikol Pashinyan:

• 2020 after the war, the architecture of state security collapsed in Armenia, and Armenia turned into a free zone, where players representing all geopolitical interests operate.

• Europe’s task today is to put itself in a position to be taken into account. The main discussions are taking place in the Russia-USA-China axis, and the fate of Europe will be decided in that triangle. 

• The price of pleasing Europe is the Middle Corridor. Europe wants its share from Armenia. The main problem is that Armenia agrees to all the demands of Turkey and Azerbaijan and as soon as possible. Europe is now doing everything to make Armenia agree to receive its share of the Middle Corridor from Turkey and Azerbaijan.

• Practically everyone accepted that Armenia was handed over to Azerbaijan, and Nikol Pashinyan himself agreed to it, giving up Artsakh and meeting other demands of Azerbaijan. We can get out of this situation only if the government changes, because even if the current government decides to change something, not only it, but also Armenia will be hit hard, and Nikol Pashinyan cannot get out of it. Therefore, these are lucky elections, and if the government does not change, it is not known what will happen to Armenia in the next election cycle. When you’re ready to close an account, and the price of anything in the world is only going up, you can’t afford that price close, even with your indulgent politics. It is necessary to get out of the mindset that if you talk about your right, object to another state, then it is adventure, war and revanchism. This is sick thinking. This psychological terror of the society is also destroying the state, because if the society with that psychology even has a de jure state, then it is just a sign.:

• I strongly doubt that Pashinyan’s electorate is interested in bringing hundreds of thousands of Azerbaijanis to Armenia. And the authorities of Armenia will not talk about it, because they have given up the policy of opposing Aliyev in general.

• Let me remind you that even the declaration that Armenia agreed to the content of the text of the “Peace Treaty” was not made jointly by the two countries. Azerbaijan announced it first. After that, Armenia unilaterally agreed to dissolve the Minsk Group before signing the treaty. Azerbaijan Academy of Sciences is assigned to develop theses about “Western Azerbaijan”. A few days ago, Pashinyan announced that not only Armenians lived in Armenia. This is the adaptation roadmap:

To remind: During the campaign, Nikol Pashinyan often deliberately throws out wrong information. For example, a few days ago he announced in Spitak. “If we have to return to some place, we provoke that place so that they say: we are also returning here. Because it is a fact, we cannot say․․․ In the Republic of Armenia, 90 percent are Armenians. Never before were 90 percent Armenians. We should understand how happy we are with today’s situation, with today’s status quo,” Pashinyan said. 

During the last census conducted in the USSR, in 1989, the number of Armenians living in the territory of the ASSR was more than the figure he said – 93.3 percent.

• The fact that Nikol Pashinyan considers not the simple majority necessary, but the constitutional majority is not just a matter of appetite. There are issues that, in his opinion, should be resolved by the constitutional majority. I do not rule out that Azerbaijan’s demand, the Declaration of Independence, will also be tried to be removed from the Constitution in that way, rather than through a referendum, which is an extremely difficult way.

• If Azerbaijan gets the enclaves, it will be a breakthrough in the territory of Armenia to get more later. If we add to this the demand to bring Azerbaijanis here, this is another breakthrough, because other demands will arise from it: positions for Azerbaijanis, a faction in the parliament, and other privileges with the consequences arising from them. Recently, one of the Azerbaijani experts in Yerevan announced that there was an Azerbaijani community in Armenia and it should have political rights. In the sense of the mechanisms, Azerbaijan will try to get guarantees for decades, so that any subsequent government will not be able to ignore these realities. Now Azerbaijan is thickening the trunk of the tree it planted, and if the government does not change, the processes will be irreversible. 

• Any vote that will go to this government means taking responsibility not only for what will happen in the event of the resumption of the CP, but also for what happened before. Moreover, if people do not go to the polls, then they are passively voting for the situation not to change and taking responsibility for what has been in these 8 years and what will happen in the future. It is necessary to understand that Armenia is not faced with the task of changing the political system, but the task of not allowing the tree planted by Azerbaijan to grow so thick that you don’t know what will fall on your head from the leaves. I see the solution of the problem through the 4 leading opposition forces. It is not fair to say that this there is no political force to your liking in the election campaign.

• Unfortunately, in these years, a large layer of consumer society has formed among us, and this consumer psychology is widely used by the existing government. Armenia is simply turning into a household government. If big business thinks that if Armenia is annexed by Azerbaijan, there will be big business in Armenia, they are terribly mistaken. In this sense, the Armenian capital all over the world also has a commitment, and the role of Samvel Karapetyan is very symbolic and significant today, that he took such a heavy responsibility upon himself. 

• When the government and quasi-authoritarian forces have made the foreign agency a daily topic, for some reason they refuse to adopt the “Foreign Agents” law, because then they can no longer manipulate the public.

• The society-opposition work regime should not be replaced by the opposition-government conflict regime. This is what Nikol Pashinyan wants. The opposition must not fall into traps. In any scenario, the opposition must continue to work with the public.

• Against the background of Russian President Putin’s visit to China, Nikol Pashinyan suddenly shows respect for Putin during the campaign. This aptly describes the state of affairs. In Astana, the topic of Armenia will be more of an occasion to discuss intra-Eurasian topics. I think both Russia and Pashinyan understand very well that Armenia has not and will not apply for membership in the European Union. There are no naive people at that level. I think that in principle, Russia has no problem with Pashinyan and does not see it. It is another matter that Pashinyan will be asked to pay a much higher price for re-election now, and Pashinyan will not be the one to pay. but the Armenian people. If on May 29 in Astana Nikol Pashinyan is asked to withdraw from the EAEU, that is the price that the Armenian people will pay for Pashinyan’s re-election.:

Details in the video.

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