Tsarukyan declares that what is being carried out against him is "obviously false."
09-07-2026 12:06 Armenia Politics
Azatutyun. The leader of the "Prosperous Armenia" party, Gagik Tsarukyan, has issued a statement from the "Yerevan-Center" penitentiary, claiming that what is being done against him is "clearly false.":
"The decisions of the CEC and the Constitutional Court, the criminal cases, and the detention cannot change my way of thinking, my value system. Regardless of all injustices, I will continue to be as useful as I can to my country, my people," Tsarukyan wrote on his Facebook page:
Tsarukyan has been detained for two months. Gagik Tsarukyan, one of the main critics of the leader of the "Civil Contract" party, Nikol Pashinyan, was arrested after a search lasting about 12 hours at his private residence, where masked employees of the National Security Service took him first to the Investigative Committee, where he was charged with fraud and money laundering:
Commenting on the election results, the leader of the Prosperous Armenia party stated that the party "gathered enough votes to enter the National Assembly."
"A clear theft took place before everyone's eyes. By the arbitrary decision of the current authorities, an entire faction was not allowed to be in the National Assembly. The rights of our tens of thousands of voters were violated, and the votes were wasted. Everything happened before the eyes of the Armenian people, before the eyes of the world," Tsarukyan emphasized.
According to the results of the June 7 elections, the new parliament includes Nikol Pashinyan's ruling "Civil Contract" party, Samvel Karapetyan's "Strong Armenia," and Robert Kocharian's "Armenia" opposition alliances. Seven political forces appealed to the Constitutional Court demanding the annulment of the election results. After a week of reviewing the opposition's applications, the Constitutional Court rejected them and upheld the CEC's decision regarding the June 7 elections:
Tsarukyan's Prosperous Armenia party was left out of parliament when the CEC annulled the voting results at two polling stations. The businessman's party fell short by several dozen votes to overcome the 4 percent threshold required for representation.
* This text was automatically translated by Artificial Intelligence (AI).
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