Threats, an entire executive gone on vacation. A stone was launched in Armenia

The campaign is starting in Armenia. Officially. We specifically record that fact, because de facto it started a long time ago, and especially the government “Civil Contract” party has been actively campaigning for several months, using the government’s levers and instruments.

And so, 19 political forces are participating in the pre-election campaign. It will last until June 5, and on June 7 the RA citizen will make his choice.

The start of the campaign was signaled by the fact that the majority of the executive is going on vacation from today, led by Nikol Pashinyan. All of them will carry out active propaganda in the villages and cities of Armenia, so that in the next five years they will continue to operate with the quality that is visible to all of us and that the citizen of Armenia feels very good on his skin.

So they go on vacation 

Economy Minister Gevorg Papoyan,

Minister of Justice Srbuhi Galyan,

Zhanna Andreasyan, Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sports,

Minister of Territorial Administration and Infrastructures Davit Khudatyan,

Minister of Health Anahit Avanesyan,

Minister of Labor and Social Affairs Arsen Torosyan,

Minister of Environment Hambardzum Matevosyan,

Minister of Finance Vahe Hovhannisyan,

Minister of Defense Suren Papikyan,

Head of the Prime Minister’s Office Araik Harutyunyan.

As well as Pashinyan’s many assistants and advisers, governors. Even the head of the Food Safety Inspection Authority, Tigran Petrosyan, is going on vacation. They will all be on vacation until June 5th.

The start of the campaign was signaled by another remarkable episode, Pashinyan once again issued threats to the opposing forces, declaring that “none of the three-headed forces of the war should cross the threshold of entering the parliament”.

“I formulated a problem in the National Assembly and we will work with the citizens on that problem so that none of the three-headed parties of the war does not overcome the threshold necessary to enter the parliament. Our plan is that none of them should pass the necessary threshold to enter the parliament. Specifically, I am talking about the “Armenia” alliance, “Strong Armenia” alliance and I am talking about the “Prosperous Armenia” party,” Pashinyan said at the meeting with journalists yesterday and then added:

“Those forces should think about entering the parliament. That they say we will win is simply ridiculous.”

And now the press wrote that before the press conference of “Strong Armenia” party leader Samvel Karapetyan was over yesterday, Pashinyan ordered his law enforcement system to carry out mass wiretapping among Karapetyan’s teammates and not only, and by all possible and impossible means to “find dirt on” his supporters and start a new wave of criminal prosecutions against that force. The question: Is there anyone who doubts that this is how it happened is rhetorical.

In other words, let’s record that nothing has changed in Pashinyan’s behavior, both as the head of the country and as the leader of the election-going force. he continues to threaten everyone who can shake his power and criticizes that power, he puts into operation the legal system that serves him submissively, adapting it only to serve his interests, as a result of which serious crimes in Armenia, including against minors, are increasing more and more, they are covered up by the same system, and there is no place and no pause in the prisons, all of them are Pashinyan’s opponents.

Let’s hope that all this is visible to the RA citizen and making the right choice will be as easy a process as stifling free speech for Pashinyan.

Lia Khojoyan

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