The “Strong Armenia” opposition bloc has strongly criticized the parliamentary elections, speaking about mass pressures, misuse of administrative resources and numerous violations during the voting.
Alliance press secretary Marianna Ghahramanyan according to reports, the entire election process was accompanied by unprecedented persecutions organized by the government system. He noted that targeted pressures, illegal arrests and criminal prosecutions were applied to leaders, candidates and supporters of political forces during the pre-election period with the aim of hindering free competition.
According to the opposition, the levers of state and local self-government were widely used on the day of the election itself, and alarms were continuously received from different marzes of the republic regarding election violations.
The fact that Nikol Pashinyan announced the victory and the formation of a single government even before the final summary of the data by the Central Electoral Commission. Ghahramanyan described this phenomenon as an unprecedented and direct instruction to the CEC.
Under the existing conditions, the alliance believes that the published official figures do not reflect the true will of the citizens and need a deep legal and political evaluation. Currently, the central headquarters of the party is conducting a detailed analysis of the situation, after which the final position and further steps of the alliance will be presented.
According to the data of the Central Electoral Commission, the “Civil Contract” party led by Nikol Pashinyan won a convincing victory, receiving 49.81 percent of the votes. The second place was taken by Samvel Karapetyan’s “Strong Armenia” bloc with 23.29 percent of the votes, while the “Armenia” bloc led by former president Robert Kocharyan rounded out the top three with 9.94 percent of votes. Gagik Tsarukyan’s “Prosperous Armenia” party managed to secure the support of only 4 percent of voters.
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