When there was no longer any doubt that PAP was in the parliament, the government decided to go for open massacre. This was written by PAP leader Gagik Tsarukyan.

“Dear compatriots, the “Prosperous Armenia” party entered the election campaign with a good representative team, submitting the “Offer to Armenia” program, on which dozens of specialists worked for months, to the voter’s court.

The main purpose of our participation in the elections was to prevent our country from possible dangerous developments, to insure us against visible economic and political dangers. We planned to have a civilized election campaign full of respect for the voter.

Unfortunately, in just the 4-5 days of the campaign, it became clear that the authorities were not interested in the civilized struggle. An ugly, illegal and immoral campaign was unleashed against us. Many of our supporters and activists were prosecuted and arrested on trumped-up charges. The ruling power waged a vulgar campaign against us full of insults and slander.

We decided not to give in to provocations and not to get into that vocabulary, that logic. Like me, active members of our team never lowered the bar of civilized debate, we stayed within the framework of political struggle.

After all the obstacles, power and propaganda attacks, the campaign conducted in the conditions of absolute inequality, even in the conditions of the unprecedented use of administrative resources and the elections held with tremendous pressure on the voter, our political strength did not break and gathered enough votes to enter the parliament. First, our votes were technically reduced, and we started a recount, which allowed us to recover the missing votes.

When there was no longer any doubt that the PAP was in the parliament, the government decided to go to open massacre. a CEC meeting was secretly held late in the evening, where the elections held in two precincts were canceled without calling for a re-vote, as required by the Election Code.

It is obvious that the elections were canceled in those precincts where PAP received a lot of votes. At the same time, the results of those precincts where the nullification of PAP votes could not affect the outcome of the elections were not canceled.

Dear compatriots, dear people,

We started an honest political struggle, but all possible illegal measures were and continue to be applied against us. I want to assure you that we will continue to defend your vote of confidence by all means not prohibited by law. This is not only the problem of the Prosperous Armenia Party, it is the problem of all of Armenia’s post-election developments, of all of us. Our team will work actively today and in the coming days, cooperating with all our partners in the opposition.

I would like to thank all the political forces, public figures, and media who have supported us since last night.

PAP is starting a series of steps aimed at protecting justice and the interests of voters, and confronting the illegalities of the government. Our legal teams work on all possible appeals and court proceedings. We are starting political consultations with political forces to develop a common agenda and steps.

Dear compatriots, all the promises and assurances given to you are valid, nothing has changed and will not change. I am your Tsarukyan,” he said.

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The RA Ministry of Internal Affairs has not received any report on the use of drugs among minors, despite the many alerts and posts on the subject on social networks. RA Minister of Internal Affairs Arpine Sargsyan told journalists about this in the National Assembly.

It should be noted that a few days ago, the president of “Dzerkd Tur” community development NGO Karine Torosyan alerted that a 12-year-old student of Orgov village secondary school ended up in the hospital after a school excursion, drugs were found in the child’s body. He mentioned that it was a high dose, and the child is in the hospital in a serious condition with memory loss.

“Similar situation is for the first time. We have urged people who make comments or posts about drug trafficking among minors to come forward with crime reports. We received 0 reports,” Sargsyan said.

According to him, various circumstances regarding the incident were discussed, because they went on an excursion and teachers were with them. The minister mentioned that from the beginning there were some hypotheses, but they were denied, and now they should work a little on the situation and continue the process more intensively.

Sargsyan assured that the whole class and the school are in the center of attention in order to understand whether there are other persons involved in this topic. At the moment, law enforcement officers do not have a definitively identified person.

Let’s remind that the 12-year-old student of Arpi Trpanchyan secondary school in Orgov village of Ashtarak community, who allegedly got drugs through sweets, is already fine and has been discharged from the hospital. School director Edgar Chatoyan informed that the excursion took place on May 29, 21 students (5-8th graders) and 7 teachers participated. They went to the nursery of the APT charity company in the village of Karin. The director of the school also informed that the company treated all the children with sweets, as well as lavash, cheese and cucumbers.

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People who manipulate my speech either didn’t understand my speech or are idiots. The third president of RA, Serzh Sargsyan, said this in a conversation with journalists, commenting on his statement: “I don’t think that Pashinyan will be elected for the 3rd term, because the previous elections were extraordinary.”

“The question was asked in the context of the amendment of the Constitution, and my answer was derived from that logic. The people who manipulate my speech either did not understand my speech or are idiots because only an idiot could think that I can justify someone who took RA to a conscious capitulation, who surrendered my motherland, who attacked my church and who left the territories of my country under the capitulation of the enemy, and what happens that despite all this he is guilty of the 3rd term to go? It is obvious that it will certainly not work for them, they will fail, what I said was very clear. I don’t want to answer any more questions,” said Sargsyan.

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We applied to the CEC, then we will apply to the Constitutional Court with 2 demands, the first is to cancel the elections, the second is to schedule a second round, if Pashinyan is sure that he has won, let him go to the second round. Samvel Karapetyan, leader of the “Strong Armenia” party, said this in a conversation with journalists.

“We didn’t win either, Pashinyan didn’t win either, that’s why we say that Armenia needs a legitimate government, he didn’t provide it. The elections are completely rigged, they are failed, they don’t hold elections under terror, all district coordinators are arrested.

Our issue is not the parliament, our issue is to remove Pashinyan, if we find that we will remove Pashinyan faster through the parliament, we will go to the parliament, if we find that we can remove him through a street struggle, we will remove him that way,” Karapetyan noted.

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“Strong Armenia” will take the mandates if it thinks that Nikol Pashinyan will be removed from power faster that way. Party leader Samvel Karapetyan made this statement in a briefing with journalists near the anti-corruption court.

“If we find that we will remove Pashinyan faster through the parliament, then we will go to the parliament. If we find that we can remove them through a street fight, then we will go that way,” said Samvel Karapetyan.

He insisted that Pashinyan did not win the elections.

Karapetyan emphasized that if the KP is sure that they have won, they should agree to the second round to legitimize the results.
“Armenia must have a legitimate government for the country to develop,” he declared.

According to Karapetyan, the second round will be easier, because there will be no pollsters.

He also announced that “Strong Armenia” will appeal to the Constitutional Court.

“We will make two demands: to cancel the results of the elections, to schedule new elections or a second round,” said Karapetyan.

He added that the main decision-maker is the people. If the people decide to come to terms with the election results, they will accept it. According to him, the people are still thinking about what to do, because they need time to make a decision.

“Americans, Azerbaijanis, Turks, Europeans, Russians won these elections, the Armenian people lost. Everyone won, except our people,” he announced.

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The Union of Pro-Centre Democrats expresses its solidarity with the representative of the Armenian opposition, Armen Ashotyan, who was arrested again on a pre-initiated order, on unclear grounds.

“Referring to our statement condemning political persecution in Armenia, we call on the Armenian authorities to ensure transparency and respect due legal procedures.

Respect for democratic principles, political pluralism and the rule of law is vital for Armenia’s democratic future,” the statement said.

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Political prisoner, RPA vice-chairman Armen Ashotyan sent a note from the detention center through lawyers, which we present below.

Being illegally imprisoned again and joining the ranks of dozens of political prisoners in Armenia, I was in a virtual information blockade. However, Edmon Marukyan’s next insidious and dirty discharge about Serzh Sargsyan and me penetrated even from the dark and thick walls of the prison.

During the entire election campaign, he tried to make himself important by regularly throwing stones in our direction, but we did not see the need to make a serious opponent out of him and totally ignored him.

Now that the election is over (with a particularly embarrassing result for Edmond), Edmond’s villainy has reached a new record high. Answer him from prison.

Convey to him that this expired and discarded vintick, who worked in the Nicolaitan regime, has no political or moral right to moral discourse or analysis.

Convey to him that I, Armen Ashotyans, do not need to be mentioned by him or, even more, to be “worried about”. That I remember very well his behavior as Nikol’s ambassador in Vienna in December 2022, both in the presence of the Azerbaijani delegates and during his conversation with me.

Tell him that he wishes he had a friend like Serzh Sargsyan or as loyal as I am.

Convey to him that it is not decent and unethical to refer to a sitting person in such a way and drag him into a dirty topic (if, of course, he still remembers the meaning of the word).

If he doesn’t have the guts or conscience to talk about me being a political prisoner, let him shut up.

After all, there is no such washing machine that would “renew” and “clean” Nicole’s repeatedly used rag, and there is no wardrobe where that second hand has a place.

The rest after my freedom.

P.S. Dear compatriot, after the regular return to information streams from quarantine, I will again share my thoughts and opinions with you, as during the previous imprisonment. Thank you for your support to me and my family.

Freedom to all political prisoners.

ARMEN ASHOTIAN

Vice President of RPA

«Nubarashen» CCA

12.06.2026

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On June 9, our “Pashinyan broke his revolutionary promise: the armed forces should not be a political factor. In the footsteps of electoral processes” with the caption in the article we also referred to the participation of the army in the last NA elections as a political factor and the episodes of taking the soldiers to the precincts after 20:00 on the voting day.

We did not ignore CEC President Vahagn Hovakimyan’s operative regarding the opinion that military personnel will be brought to the polling stations after 20:00 on June 7. the claim or that nothing illegal happened.

“Before 20:00 in the evening, the soldiers were in front of the door of the polling station, waiting for their turn, and here a problem arose: either close the door of the polling station for the soldiers and not let them in so that they could exercise their right to vote, or let them in.” on June 8 in a conversation with journalists, he elaborated, stressing that those soldiers have been waiting in front of the polling stations for a long time and could not simply enter due to the queues at the polling station, and that such a problem occurred in only 2 polling stations.

On June 9 Edward Asryan, head of the General Staff of the RA Armed Forces, was also in the conversation with the journalists to assure that the soldiers voted within the law. In other words, according to the requirements of the Electoral Code, “it doesn’t matter if he is a soldier or an ordinary citizen, he is in the territory of the electoral district, he is allowed to continue his constitutional duty.”

“Our servicemen were in the territory of the polling station at the appointed time, that is, no serviceman came to the polling station late.” Asryan emphasized.

In response to the objection that there is a precinct where the soldiers entered after 20:00, the head of the General Election Commission urged to address the remaining questions to the Central Electoral Commission and other related bodies.

And one more on June 11 The CEC convenes an extraordinary session and declares the decision invalid 35/65 (Syunik, Agarak) and 10/51 Voting results of (Nubarashen) precincts.

“The commission recognized as invalid the results of the voting in the electoral precinct No. 10/51 formed in the service area of ​​the electoral district electoral commission No. 10 and the results of the voting in the electoral district No. 35/65 organized in the service area of ​​the electoral district electoral commission No. 35 for the purpose of organizing and holding the regular elections of the National Assembly on June 7, 2026.

The commission decided to record the number of voting participants in precinct No. 10/51, 1287, as the sum of inaccuracies in precinct No. 10/51.

The number of voters in precinct No. 35/65: 1315 (one thousand three hundred and fifteen) was recorded as the total number of inaccuracies in Precinct No. 35/65.

The other results (numbers) of the protocols of election precincts No. 10/51 and No. 35/65, except for the amount of inaccuracies, were recorded as 0 (zero).

The materials of election precincts No. 10/51 and No. 35/65 have been sent to the prosecutor’s office,” it was noted at the extraordinary session of the CEC. protocol in

At the same time, CP deputy Vahagn Aleksanyan posted on his Facebook page note: does, noting:

“As a result of the hysteria raised by the opposition due to the soldiers’ vote, the results of 2 precincts are canceled. in which CP had a total of 1224 votes.

Any time this opposition utters the words “army” or “soldier” in the next five years, they must remember that they generated a process to invalidate the vote of the soldiers who got off the shift and voted.”

After this post, the deputies of the government put up appropriate “screens” from the representatives of the opposition forces, related to the soldiers’ vote.

Meanwhile, the opposition forces claim that all this is being done in order to steal the votes of the PAP and not leave it to the parliament. Maybe. In this case, the problem is not this, but that authorities can invalidate what they thought was legal within 2-3 days.

That is, when media was video publish that the soldiers were not in the precinct as of 20:00, but entered the precinct after 20:00, when the Eyewitness observation mission reported that about 480 soldiers were allowed to vote after 20:00, the authorities claimed that there was nothing illegal.

And after a few more days, it is decided to invalidate the results of the soldiers’ voting in the above-mentioned precincts and “throw” the blame for it in the pocket of the opposition.

If everything was legal, if the late entry of soldiers to the precinct, or the accumulation had objective reasons, as was presented a few days ago, although the shift could have been properly organized, then why is the army once again made a part of the political game and their votes are invalidated?

Is it justified to meet the dissatisfaction of the opposition when there is a problem of the reputation of the army, of course not. In other words, for the second time we are witnessing a disrespectful attitude towards the army in a short time.

If the government had to do this, why wasn’t it done immediately, why didn’t they demand responsibility from the relevant command? We think everything is obvious.

By the way, let’s mention that in one of Sotk’s precincts, it is also related to soldiers a shameful picture was presented, but there is no question about this, they did not manage to choose the soldiers who were brought to the precinct on the voting day. And? 35/65 (Syunik, Agarak) and 10/51 In the (Nubarashen) precincts, there should essentially be a re-vote and the soldiers should be decommissioned and taken to the polls again, perhaps at a time limit that has already been set.

To what extent some opposition forces have the right to name the army and the soldiers or not, it will still be discussed, maybe some of them don’t. But there are many episodes and cases that the government has deprived itself of its moral right for a long time.

The army and the soldier should first of all be considered as an important factor in ensuring the security of the country, and not become participants in petty political games, even if the problem, as it is presented, is to meet the dissatisfaction of the opposition, if everything does not lead to that.

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3 days after the elections, the Government raised excise taxes, which implies an increase in the price of cigarettes, alcohol and fuel.

The government has approved the draft law “On Amendments to the RA Tax Code”, which envisages revising the rates of goods subject to excise tax. According to the executive, the initiative aims to provide additional tax revenues, harmonize excise taxes with EAEU countries, as well as take into account the projected inflation in the coming years.

“When the law comes into force, the public will immediately feel the consequences, because it will have an immediate impact on tariffs.” 168.amreferring to the review of rates, he mentioned Economist Nairi Sargsyan, head of the “Armenia is me” political initiative.

Speaking about the justifications presented by the government, Nairi Sargsyan reminded that even before the elections, there were regular talks about the pre-election actions carried out at the expense of future taxes.

“When the government showed haste, introduced a health insurance system, increased pensions, etc., they were not planned with the budget, and if they were not planned, naturally, they would not meet the budget expenses, and I will not be silent about the revenues at all. In such a case, when the economy does not have the potential to increase the volume of products and services, there is only one option left: increasing the tax rate or expanding the tax base. Now they have to raise taxes, because in reality, Armenia’s economy is not growing.

Here comes the question: what tax should we raise so that a wave of public dissatisfaction does not arise immediately after the elections due to political turbulence, that is, we have an adequate answer to it? it is the excise tax. Excise tax is almost always interpreted by many governments of the world as being aimed at taxing products that are harmful to health, and thereby trying to prevent the sale of products that are harmful to health, such as tobacco and alcoholic beverages, and public sentiments are softened, he explained.

According to the economist, for now they are increasing the excise tax, but in the very near future we will witness an increase in other taxes, and its impact will naturally be negative on the social condition of the Republic of Armenia, on the people’s standard of living, from agriculture to processing production.

“Let me say one conditional point. if, for example, the daily service fee for agricultural machinery is 100,000 AMD to cultivate a certain X amount of land, then due to the excise tax, the price of diesel fuel will increase and it will become, for example, 120,000 AMD. And he will obligatorily include the 20,000 drams increase in the tariff of agricultural products, which, if we correlate with the expected opening of the Turkish border and the flooding of the Armenian market with Turkish products, creates a favorable condition for the unhindered sale of Turkish products in Armenia and the complete elimination of Armenian agricultural products, agricultural products in general, “said Nairi Sargsyan, adding that the logistical costs possible inflation as a result of the increase.

By the way, if this draft is accepted by the National Assembly, the new rates will start to operate on July 1, just one month after the parliamentary elections.

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