Yesterday, Nikol Pashinyan went to Gyumri for an election campaign, where he also held a concert and a rally in the evening. During the rally, he announced that extraordinary elections of the Council of Elders should be held in Gyumri.

According to Nikol Pashinyan, after the parliamentary elections in Armenia on June 7, special elections should be held in Gyumri together with the people of Gyumri and “people’s power will be established in Gyumri”.

Political scientist Gagik Hambaryan in the last year, the name of Gyumri is always mentioned, but we should not forget that Nikol Pashinyan seized the power in different cities and settlements with different methods.

“In Shirak Marz, for example, they brazenly brought the Chadaists to power in the Akhuryan community, “stealing” some of the opposition members of the council of elders. They did the same ugliness in Alaverdi, let’s not forget Vanadzor as well, where they arrested the mayor Mamiko Aslanyan through the political agents controlled by them, and so on. As for Gyumri, I must say that the homeless Nikol does not come to terms with the situation that has existed in Gyumri since 2021.

Nicole’s political team lost in both 2021 and 2025. They tried to blur the defeat of 2021 by forming a coalition with the “Balasanyan” alliance. Now they brazenly say that they did not form a coalition, it is interesting, what were those two deputy mayors, one the grandson of Anna Hakobyan’s aunt, the other the cousin of Suren Papikyan, doing in the Gyumri municipality, not to mention that 50 percent of the municipality were from KP?” of 168.am Gagik Hambaryan said in a conversation with

According to the political scientist, now the government is trying to “wash its hands” of the events taking place in Gyumri and say that they have nothing to do with it.

As for the last elections of the Council of Elders, according to Gagik Hambaryan, the result of the elections shocked Nikol Pashinyan.

“If you have noticed, Nikol Pashinyan constantly tries to prevent Gyumri-2 by various methods and conducts negotiations with some opposition parties, trying to attract them to his side. By the way, living in Gyumri, I have many proofs of how Nikol Anhoghi’s team, for example, tried to negotiate with Martun Grigoryan, tried to make him become the mayor, and in honor of Martun Grigoryan, he did not conduct separate negotiations with the activists. As is the case in all normal countries, he gave his votes to the party that got the most votes among the opposition parties. Now Nikol came and said that he has despised the election of the Gyumri people, that man proclaiming himself the leader of the “people’s bastion”, he simply despises the people’s election and does it openly. He does everything to trample the voice of the Gyumri people.

God forbid, if he is re-elected, then everything is clear: first, he will imprison potential opposition candidates who can win the elections, he will not allow some candidates to participate through the CEC, and he will do everything for the stepists to come to power. He will present his behavior as a normal phenomenon,” added our interlocutor.

In this context, Gagik Hambaryan reminded that a person who was not chosen by Trump was elected mayor of New York, but he is at peace with the results of the elections, because the people of New York chose that person as their mayor. And Nikol Pashinyan cannot come to terms with the situation that was formed in Gyumri as a result of the election of a Gyumri citizen.

“That man is a little dictator, he doesn’t accept dissent, he doesn’t care about the public’s opinion,” said Gagik Hambaryan.

Talking about receiving Nikol Pashinyan in Gyumri, Gagik Hambaryan said that 25-30 thousand people can fit in Gyumri square, Daniel Ioannisyan wrote that there are 7700 people.

“They got up in 5 buses and came to Gyumri, 3 buses of the guard, a huge number of law enforcement officers, the entire team of the CP. A day before coming to Gyumri, Nikol Pashinyan went to Artik, Akhuryan, Ashotsk, Maralik, did you see, the people of Akhuryan, the residents of Maralik, Artik actively participated in the Gyumri rally, that person can’t stand the fact that Vardanants Square can’t be filled. The square is full at the concerts organized by the authorities, but people do not come to the meetings with Nikol, they do not want to meet him. But he is a “zorba”, he has a fixed idea, that’s why they want to fill the square in every possible way.

People who are familiar with the “geography” of Gyumri Square understand that people gathered just in front of the stage, did you see people beyond the fountains, did you not, Gagik Hambaryan emphasized.

Let’s remind that last year in March in Gyumri, extraordinary elections of the council of elders were held, as a result of which Vardan Ghukasyan was elected the mayor of the community, defeating the CP candidate Sarik Minasyan.

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