This is a fundamental fact. the chances of getting rid of evil are very high. Gagik Minasyan

The issue of the participation of the Republican Party of Armenia in the National Assembly elections was discussed for a long time in the RPA Executive Body, for more than a month, and in the end, with many pros and cons, a decision was made not to directly participate in the upcoming elections. About this 168TVof Revue mentioned on the air of the program Gagik Minasyan, member of the RPA Executive Bodyspeaking about the 18th congress of the RPA held last Saturday.

According to Gagik Minasyan, no matter how paradoxical it may sound, with this decision, the RPA has taken a big step forward in the direction of solving all the problems facing Armenian statehood, perhaps leaving the internal party interests behind.

“Unfortunately, it was a reality that there was a rather unpleasant negative conflict between the parties in the opposition field, which would inevitably affect the combined actions of the common front, which should be able to remove this evil power, and we do not participate in practice, that is, our name will not be on the list of parties and alliances participating in the elections, believe that this negative phenomenon either disappears or can no longer have its effect,” explained Gagik. Minasyan.

Minasyan also adds that according to numerous polls, the electorate of the Republican Party will give 100% of its votes to this or that opposition force and will not give it to the ruling party, CP, under any circumstances.

“And it is very important that the electorate of our party is highly politicized, and it is impossible to imagine that they stay at home and do not go to the polls, and this has been demonstrated in the last 7-8 years, on the way of the implacable struggle with this evil government. Not participating in the actual elections, we will continue our actions, we will support the forces that will be on the electoral lists in all pre-election stages, but in addition, we will also carry out consistent work so that what we all fear so much does not happen. it is the gross violations not foreseen by this evil government, not only before the elections, but also during the electoral process itself. We will invest all our resources in order to neutralize that possibility as much as possible, both through street fighting and other methods,” emphasizes the former member of the National Assembly.

And Gagik Minasyan highly appreciates the possibilities of getting rid of the “authority of evil”, analyzing the results of the latest Gallup survey.

The Republican figure urges all voters, and especially the opposition electorate, to definitely go to the June 7 elections, stressing that the lower the number of voting participants, the greater the percentage of votes for the “power of evil”, therefore, the first priority is to increase the number of voters.

The interlocutor emphasizes that the data of the latest Gallup poll and many previous polls confirm the same fact that the combined number of percentages of the first three opposition forces, in this case, “Strong Armenia”, “Armenia Alliance”, “Prosperous Armenia” is much higher than the percentage of CP.

“This is a fundamental and hope-inspiring fact that even if it remains like this, and I am sure that the percentages of the opposition will increase more and more during the remaining two months, and the chances of getting rid of evil are very, very high, and our voters should definitely take this fact into account and be full of hope that the solution to the big problem of driving evil aside is realistic,” Gagik Minasyan thinks.

In the context of the pre-election processes, referring to the Putin-Pashinyan that took place a week ago in Moscow meeting Gagik Minasyan expressed his opinion that the speech of the President of the Russian Federation, which slightly deviated from the standard diplomatic protocol, stemmed from the realities that exist in the Armenian-Russian bilateral relations and the Armenian election processes.

“If there are gross violations of electoral processes during pre-election processes, then these violations can lead to the reproduction of evil power in Armenia, and this will cause problems in Armenian-Russian relations. I think that, from that point of view, Russia’s approaches to the prevention of these negative problems can have a significant impact on both the positive development of Armenian-Russian relations and the development of Armenia’s internal political processes, because it would be illogical to leave the most powerful opposition political force out of the competition. It can be a step that has nothing to do with democracy at all,” says Gagik Minasyan.

Let’s remind that last week the RPA announced that it will not participate in the parliamentary elections scheduled for June 7, 2026, according to the decision of the Executive Body. On April 4, the 18th congress of the RPA took place, at which the third president of the Republic of Armenia, the president of the RPA, Serzh Sargsyan, announced that the RPA will not directly participate in the elections, but will remain one of the pioneers of the struggle against this government.

Full interview in the video.

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