The political forces participating in the parliamentary elections on June 7 officially started the pre-election campaign on May 8. Most of the political forces started the campaign from marzes, some from Yerevan.

Gas technologist Armen Badalyan In other words, the political forces had unofficially started their campaign months ago, so it’s not like the start of the campaign was significantly different from the days of the unofficial campaign.

“All the forces started the campaign with the same methodology from the actual handwritten point of view, as months ago, there was no purely technological new development or some kind of start. Again, rallies, marches, meetings, that is, mass organizational events, which probably could not be otherwise, because when they start with the same methodology, they cannot give some intriguing process. Of course, they can do it, but they can’t, it’s not that easy.” of 168.am said Armen Badalyan in a conversation with

He found it difficult to say whether the campaign will be calm or whether there will be incidents, although it is possible that there will be tension during the campaign, because the “stakes” in the elections are quite high.

“The pre-election campaign of the ruling political force started on August 8, 2025, when the so-called “peace” document was initialed in Washington. And for other political forces, the pre-election campaign started from the end of last fall and the beginning of this year. When we observe the campaign during this period, we see that the political forces do not use their chances 100%, in many cases there are many mistakes, in many cases the methodology repeats the methodology of 1995.

Here the CP uses the “peace” methodology, says: “we came to power, it will be peaceful”, after that it uses the EU factor. In parallel, he says: “forget about Artsakh, let’s settle within the existing borders.” There are people for whom this is understandable and natural, following these slogans, they will vote for the government. There is a political force that promises to make the United States an ally for Armenia. The political forces of Samvel Karapetyan, Gagik Tsarukyan and Robert Kocharyan also offer different points: creation of jobs, reduction of drug prices, etc., added the technologist.

According to our interlocutor, none of the political forces at the moment has clearly shown the vision of what Armenia will have in case of the victory of their force. They do not show the picture of the country that they will build in case of their victory, so that people know what country they will vote for.

“The campaign should be conducted in such a way that it does not turn into “clownada”, it is beneficial only to the ruling political force. It is in the interest of the ruling political force to cheapen the electoral process as much as possible, that is, to trivialize it as much as possible, while these elections are of fatal significance: this will show the course of Armenia for the next 100 years,” emphasized Armen Badalyan.

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