"The strong Armenia" has faced obstacles that have affected the election, Vardevanyan said.
29-06-2026 13:39 Armenia Politics
Sputnik․ The representative of the coalition stated that the created situation is not compatible with the equal conditions of elections guaranteed by the Constitution.
“The ‘Strong Armenia’ coalition has faced obstacles that have significantly influenced the election results. Today, this was stated by the coalition representative Aram Vardevanyan at the Constitutional Court, responding to a question from the Deputy Chairman of the Constitutional Court, Judge Edgar Shatiryans, who is the reporting judge in the election dispute case. The judge asked whether, in Vardevanyan's opinion, the political struggle in the context of the last parliamentary elections unfolded in an inter-party, ideological, programmatic dimension, or in an interpersonal one.”
“Our side presented it under a programmatic logic, emphasizing the political responsibility of the person, Samvel Karapetyan, which I cannot say about the ‘Civil Contract’ party. It is the CC that has implemented hate speech; we have legal factual data regarding this, and what is being implemented at that moment, even under the conditions of having the levers of executive power, the degree of its influence is incomparable to any other force's similar vocabulary, the situation of deviating from such programs,” Aram Vardevanyan stated.
He added that all this has also been incompatible with Article 7 of the Constitution, which guarantees equal conditions for elections.
Regarding the significant obstacles created for their coalition, Vardevanyan pointed out the house arrest of the coalition leader Samvel Karapetyan, as well as the number of criminal prosecutions against coalition members and supporters, which have been accompanied by motions to apply detention as a preventive measure.
The commission has declared the results of voting at 3 polling stations, numbers 10/51, 35/65, and 12/13, invalid, as a result of which the ‘Prosperous Armenia’ party lost 213 votes.
Let us recall that on June 7, parliamentary elections were held in Armenia, with the participation of 16 parties and 2 coalitions. According to preliminary results, the PAP received 4% of the voters' votes and could enter the parliament. Later, the CEC declared the results of voting at 3 polling stations invalid, resulting in the ‘Prosperous Armenia’ party losing 213 votes, effectively failing to overcome the 4% threshold. On June 14, the CEC published the final voting results, according to which the PAP does not enter the parliament (58287 votes or 3.9893%).
According to the CEC's final results, the CC will have 64 mandates in the parliament, the ‘Strong Armenia’ will have 29, and the ‘Armenia’ coalition will have 12 mandates:
On June 19, 7 political forces appealed to the Constitutional Court, demanding to annul the election results. The trial of the combined case at the Constitutional Court started on June 26 at 11 a.m. The Constitutional Court has 15 days to examine the case.
* This text was automatically translated by Artificial Intelligence (AI).
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