Nikol Pashinyan is turning the campaign into an open political reprisal.

Since early morning, masked persons, employees of the National Security Service have been invading the apartments and workplaces of PAP parliamentary candidates. After being announced by Nikol Pashinyan for two days, Andranik Tevanyan was charged yesterday, and today masked persons are conducting searches in his office. Masked persons also invaded the house of PAP deputy candidate Martun Grigoryan early in the morning.

It is obvious that after the numerous and powerful meetings that took place in Gyumri yesterday, the authorities found themselves in political upheaval. The best proof of this is the behavior of Nikol Pashinyan himself, in the form of giving press conferences and making anxious statements in the early morning while still sleepy. Pashinyan’s unbalanced behavior with baseless accusations and personal insults speaks of one thing: the government is in a panic.

It is obvious that the ruling Communist Party led by Nikol Pashinyan is the only one that does not come up with any programmatic content during the entire campaign, but is guided by the style of throwing mud at political opponents with street vocabulary.

I remind you that the “Prosperous Armenia” party has a long political path. During this entire period, the activities of the party chairman Gagik Tsarukyan were always aimed at protecting the interests of the state, homeland and people.

The “Prosperous Armenia” party has memorandums of cooperation with a number of foreign political forces, including the Conservative and Reformist Party of Europe, as well as the “United Russia” party of Russia. Years ago, Gagik Tsarukyan brought about three dozen European deputies to Armenia and Artsakh to show the international community that Artsakh exists, that people live there, and that it is not just a “war zone”. Cooperation with various political forces has always served one goal: to raise Armenia’s reputation on international platforms and protect Armenian interests.

We are unequivocal in our position. no repression, no persecution and no political persecution can affect our political course. We have always defended and will continue to defend the Armenian interest and the real state interests of the Republic of Armenia.

We assess what is happening as a targeted and coordinated attack against the opposition political force and the candidates for parliament, at the hottest stage of the pre-election process.

We also invite the attention of international structures, officials carrying out their diplomatic mission in our country, observers to these illegal processes. If you don’t see or ignore these shameful realities, when Nikol Pashinyan even threatens physical reprisals against the leaders of the opposition, then you don’t see anything.

I am attaching the video about the meetings held yesterday in Shirak Marz, so that it becomes clear after what Nikol Pashinyan found himself in a mental disorder.

Iveta Tonoyan

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