Karapetyan's bloc pointed to pressure and violations in the elections in Armenia

Pressure on the opposition and numerous violations during the parliamentary elections in Armenia had an impact on the voting results. This was stated on June 8 by Marianna Kagramanyan, the press secretary of Samvel Karapetyan's Strong Armenia bloc.

"Throughout the entire electoral process, the Strong Armenia Alliance acted under unprecedented and large—scale pressure and persecution organized by the government system," she wrote on Facebook (banned in Russia, owned by Meta, a company recognized as extremist in Russia).

According to her, the election campaign was accompanied by harassment of representatives of the bloc, and violations and the use of administrative resources were recorded on election day.

In addition, the "Strong Armenia" drew attention to the statement of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan about the victory before the end of the counting of all votes. The headquarters of the block reported that they were analyzing the situation and would present their position later.

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The vote took place amid unprecedented pressure on the opposition and public fatigue from total uncertainty.

The Civil Contract party won 49.81% of the votes in the parliamentary elections on the same day. According to the results of the processed votes, more than 727 thousand voters voted for the "Civil Contract". The Strong Armenia bloc came in second place, with more than 340 thousand people voting for it (23.29%).

On June 8, Karapetyan told Izvestia about possible fraud and pressure on the opposition in the parliamentary elections. According to Karapetyan, about 700 people from his party have been arrested, 80 of them have already been sent to prison "for unknown reasons."