The election of the National Assembly was already predetermined before the voting day, June 7. These elections are not legitimate, and their results are not credible. About this 168 TVof Revue he said on the air of the program International scholar Menua Soghomonyan, member of “HayaVote” uniontheevaluating the results of the National Assembly elections.

“The expectation was that the opposition will obviously win, but as a result of very large state intervention, the use of all resources of the state by the political authorities, creation of extremely unequal conditions, implementation of selective justice, etc., the victory of the opposition did not happen formally. However, it should also be noted that the authorities did not win,” said Menua Soghomonyan.

On June 7, the guest of “Review” as part of “HayaVote” carried out an observation mission in various regional polling stations and presented the open election violations committed by the authorities both on the voting day and during the pre-election period.

Menua Soghomonyan emphasizes that it is necessary to get out of the framework of stereotypes formed for decades about election fraud, that election fraud is only stuffing ballot boxes. According to him, the authorities are now using more modern and skillful technologies to falsify the elections and predict their outcome.

According to Menua Soghomonyan, the election battle between the ruling CP party and the opposition forces took place in extremely unequal conditions. According to Soghomonyan, the public sentiments and the voter’s decision were significantly affected by the full use of state and administrative resources by the main opposition forces, the political authorities, the implementation of electoral justice against the opposition, bribery in the form of various programs and pensions, foreign interference in the electoral process of Armenia and the intimidation of the public by the current head of the political power, Nikol Pashinyan, and the fear of war.

“Nikol Pashinyan announced that he was “closing” the issue of Artsakh with these elections. Most of the participants in the election actually said “no” to closing the Artsakh issue. Nikol Pashinyan could not secure the majority of voters in his favor, even through great interference, intimidation, cheating, bribery, etc. No, the elections are not legitimate, that is, these results that have been recorded cannot be legitimate. I would not say that what is happening now is less delegitimizing election violations than what happened tens of years ago. The election was already predetermined before the voting day. “If it were not for this terror, we would have had a change of power,” commented Menua Soghomonyan.

Referring to the criminal cases initiated against the representatives of the opposition forces, wiretapping, selective justice, Menua Soghomonyan emphasizes that during all this time, we did not hear that the Investigative Committee or the Anti-Corruption Committee had even once wiretapped any village head, community head or administrative and economic coordinators of schools working for KP.

“What is it, village heads and administrative-economic coordinators or community heads, we are talking about CP members, or community hall workers, utility heads, various civil servants, are they all widespread saints and law-abiding people?” I have seen with my own eyes how they bring teachers and employees of the municipality to the rally that I pass by, they hold their heads in shame. “How did it happen that no Investigative Committee did any such eavesdropping and did not record any such facts about the illegal actions of the government representatives,” Soghomonyan added.

Let us remind that according to the preliminary results of the National Assembly election, 1 million 477 thousand 736 voters participated in the June 7 voting. According to the preliminary results summarized by the Central Electoral Commission, CP received 49.8 percent of the total votes, “Strong Armenia” bloc – 23.281 percent, and “Armenia” bloc – 9.934 percent. As a result of the recounting of votes, the PAP can also overcome the 4 percent electoral threshold set for the parties.

Full interview in the video.

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