Your skin will be flayed, all of you who distribute bribes. You can't imagine what awaits you. Avinyan
23-06-2026 15:59:10 | Armenia | Press of Diaspora
armtimes.com «These elections were exceptional in terms of violations. For the first time in the last eight years, representatives of the opposition attempted to obtain votes through bribery, electoral fraud, directing and intimidating people»:
The Mayor of Yerevan, Tigran Avinyan, announced this during a city council meeting, noting that this is an exceptional case where it was not the authorities but the opposition that engaged in electoral fraud.
«All those who imagined that they have the opportunity to seize the state through electoral fraud and bribery still do not realize what awaits them», Avinyan said.
He promised that all those responsible would be punished in the strictest manner.
«This is exactly how you should have conducted your experiment with bribery; you should have gone and hit your heads against the wall, smashed your heads, and now all of you who distributed bribes will face consequences. All those who attempted to commit a crime against this state will face consequences, I promise you», Avinyan stated.
In response to the question of why the Central Electoral Commission did not remove those forces from the electoral race, Avinyan explained that it was done to avoid «lamentation and crying». According to him, if they had been removed from the race, for the next five years, there would have been statements saying, «those opposition forces would have come, would have won, and we did not allow that».
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