Civil Contract’s mission: Leading Armenia toward prosperity, says Pashinyan,

Prime Minister and Civil Contract party leader Nikol Pashinyan said at the party congress on Saturday that, for the first time ever, the people have become the authors of policies and strategies since 2021.

In his speech, he accused former governments of neglecting the people.

“Previously, no one wanted to listen to the people because it was assumed that they were not ‘worldly’ enough. This continues today, as some political forces participating in the process say whatever they want about the people and still take part in elections. But this is the height of political ignorance. It is obvious to me that in the June 7, 2026 elections, the tripartite war party will once again meet the wall of the people,” said Pashinyan, referring to the parties led by former President Robert Kocharyan and business tycoons Samvel Karapetyan and Gagik Tsarukyan, whom he has accused of being a “tripartite war party.”

He noted that his administration’s 2021 program was exceptional in that it revealed the clash between historical phases and historical processes.

“One of these was the clash between the internal impulses of the people and the historical role imposed on us by geopolitical traps. On this point, I still feel it necessary to recall my dialogue with the late Pope Francis during my visit to the Vatican in November 2024. The Pope said that he recognized us as a martyred people. But I replied that my mission—and that of our government—is to ensure that we are no longer a martyred people and to change our historical destiny. We will simply live and build a state. And this is precisely where Civil Contract has a historic mission—to lead the people of Armenia toward a normal, prosperous, free, sovereign, and state-centered life,” Pashinyan said.