June: 18, 2026
Samvel Karapetyan, head of the “Strong Armenia” party, answered the question of Satik Seyranyan, editor-in-chief of “168 zam” newspaper and 168.am website, at a meeting with media editors: “More than 700,000 people did not vote for the government, and perhaps the goal of the opposition was not only power for the sake of power, but to prevent the Turkish-Azerbaijani plans that Pashinyan is going to implement, especially when the leader of the Turkish “Nationalist Movement” party, Devlet Bahceli, is very upset. directly stated that “Trump’s Way” or “Zangezur Corridor” is actually “Turan Corridor”. Accordingly, the opposition has a problem of not polluting the votes.
“In all cases, Nikol Pashinyan did not win these elections. If we take the opposition forces that, so to speak, ignited the votes of the people, if it was not distributed, if the CP did not take advantage of those votes, by all calculations it was seen that they did not win these elections. But they are trying to register it as a victory, and most importantly, they and their supporting forces started to develop the narratives that the opposition should not take the mandates, because if the opposition does not take the mandates, they get the opportunity to rule the National Assembly alone,” Samvel Karapetyan responded to the above-mentioned questions, adding that there is also the government’s issue of legitimacy.
“I want to discuss this issue with all the opposition forces, we will understand whether we will take the mandates, we will not take the mandates, we will fight because our state will have an illegitimate government and the mechanism formed by Azerbaijan and Turkey in RA, with which they will lead our country to Turkification,” he stressed.
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