YEREVAN. – Past daily of Armenia writes: According to Past newspaper’s information, [acting PM] Nikol Pashinyan has instructed the law enforcement system to “discover” several dozen people in the coming days, who allegedly distributed money, particularly in favor of [second President] Robert Kocharyan.
According to our information, they have also prepared people who have been obligated to testify as if they had received money to vote for the “Armenia” bloc[, led by Kocharyan, in the snap parliamentary elections on June 20]. (…).
According to the information we received, this is a well-thought-out scenario which should help Nikol Pashinyan to build speeches during the [election] campaign and to gain some votes by smearing the political opponent.
The thing is that those at the headquarters of the [ruling] Civil Contract [Party] have discussed the main “points” of the [election] campaign, and realized that there is no topic on which they will be able to present themselves to the public in an honest way.
In order not to fail the [election] campaign like the pledges [they had made], they have preferred to smear the practice, engaging the law enforcement in this work as well.
And the main target will be the “Armenia” bloc and Kocharyan.
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