Yerevan mayor issues threats against opposition at meeting of Council  of Elders

ArmInfo.  Yerevan Mayor Tigran Avinyan issued threats against the opposition at a meeting of the Yerevan Council of Elders.

According to him, after the results of the 2026 elections have been  tabulated, one cannot but agree with some assessments that these  elections were exceptional in terms of the number of violations over  the past eight years. "For the first time in eight years, opposition  representatives attempted to win votes through bribery, election  fraud, manipulation, and intimidation, and to some extent, they  succeeded. They ask us:  why didn't the Central Election Commission  exclude these forces from the election campaign? Why didn't you file  a complaint? The answer is very simple: because if we had filed a  complaint, and if, for example, the Central Election Commission had  excluded these forces from the election campaign, we would have heard  five years of screams, cries, and shouts about how these opposition  forces would come and win, and we didn't allow them to. But now let  them bang their heads against the wall, smash their own heads. Now  all of you, all those who hand out election bribes, will be skinned,"  he said.

According to the final results of the Central Election Commission,  published on June 14, only three political forces will make it into  the new parliament. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan's ruling Civil  Contract party won 64 seats, allowing it to independently form a  government without a coalition agreement. The Strong Armenia and  Armenia blocs won 29 and 12 seats, respectively. Despite  participating in the elections, the Prosperous Armenia party failed  to clear the 4% threshold and will not be elected to the new  parliament. This outcome prompted the opposition's mass appeal to the  Constitutional Court.