The statement of the RPA executive body regarding the June 7, 2026 parliamentary elections and the political situation in the country

No elections were held in Armenia on June 7. election fraud took place, a pre-planned, centralized leadership and criminal action crowned by the direct intervention of the head of the administration aimed at usurping the will of the people.

Our party has consistently and principledly stated that these elections were being prepared under such conditions that deprived the electoral process of its free, fair and competitive nature from the beginning. Also, based on this deep conviction, the Republican Party made a decision with its participation not to give a veil of legitimacy to a process whose course and outcome were predetermined not by the will of the people, but by the pressure of the administrative machine. Nikol Pashinyan’s regime will not tolerate free and fair elections under any circumstances, because free elections are a defeat for him.

The day of the elections and the entire period before it completely confirmed the validity of our warnings.

We share the assessments of the June 14 joint statement of the opposition political forces that participated in the elections. Widespread use of administrative resources, intimidation of state and community officials, political prosecutions and arrests of opposition figures and activists, deliberate paralyzing of opposition headquarters, turning state and pro-government media into a discrediting tool, direct falsification of votes and distortion of polling station results are the links of a criminal program directed from one common center. This is not a series of individual violations, but a systemic election robbery carried out by the power of the state machine.

This criminal plan was completed by the Central Electoral Commission, which on June 14, by its decision, carried out an open usurpation of the 3/5 majority of the National Assembly in favor of the “Civil Agreement”, illegally refusing to organize a re-voting in three polling stations and thus depriving the “Prosperous Armenia” party of the opportunity to overcome the transient threshold. The official image that emerged is not the result of an election, but an open usurpation of power by the Communist Party.

All state bodies, including the law enforcement system, the Central Electoral Commission and the so-called independent bodies, have illegally served and continue to serve exclusively the interests of Nikol Pashinyan’s reproduction, deliberately not providing the legal conditions for holding truly democratic elections.

Based on the aforementioned, the Republican Party announces:

The official results of the so-called elections of June 7 are false, meaningless and do not reflect the will of the Armenian people.
The National Assembly formed on the basis of those results is not a representative body of the people, but a collection of usurped mandates, devoid of any democratic legitimacy. The Republican Party does not recognize the National Assembly formed in this way and the government created by it as a legitimate expression of the will of the Armenian people.

Nikol Pashinyan personally bears the political and legal responsibility for plunging the country into a deep internal political crisis and all its possible consequences.
The Republican Party calls on all political forces with national-state responsibility and every citizen to overcome differences and unite around one goal: to restore the usurped choice of the people and protect the statehood of Armenia.

We will fight consistently and uncompromisingly, solely with the power of the Constitution, the law and democratic principles, in defense of citizens’ electoral rights, the interests of the Republic of Armenia and the fundamental values ​​of democracy.

A rigged election cannot and will not become a source of legitimate power.
The republic was and remains our highest value.

Executive body of the Republican Party of Armenia
June 15, 2026, Yerevan

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