The opposition misled the public and secured votes for the Communist Party representative - Nazeli Baghdasaryan

ArmInfo. Much will be written and  said about the elections in Gyumri, but there are undeniable facts  that need to be voiced today. Nazeli Baghdasaryan, the press  secretary of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, posted this on her  Facebook account.

<In the days preceding the elections and on the day of the elections,  a large group of oppositionists from all over Armenia, and  particularly from Yerevan, gathered in Gyumri under the guise of  journalists and observers. Their goal was one: to create an illusion  under incredible headlines that the authorities were falsifying the  elections. Despite the presence of prominent opposition figures and  their tireless efforts no violations were recorded that could be  attributed to the authorities themselves and  have a significant  impact on the voting results," Baghdasaryan wrote.

 According to her, the irony is that the lion's share of the recorded  violations were committed by the opposition itself. Meanwhile, the  groundless accusations brought against the government remained  unsubstantiated and unfounded. "After the election results were  summed up, articles with headlines like "the elections were  falsified" and "the elections in Gyumri should be declared invalid"  completely disappeared," she noted. Meanwhile, Baghdasaryan noted,  the political team of the ruling "Civil Contract" party in Armenia,  remaining true to its principles and scenario, has always rejected  any manifestations of falsifications in the elections. Therefore,  cases of obvious bribery, coercion and forced election campaigning in  Gyumri involving opposition representatives should receive a clear  legal assessment, she added.

<<Civil Contract> has been and remains honest with its voters, and  that is why more than 17,000 people from Gyumri voted for Sarik  Minasyan and our party for the sake of democratic Armenia. Another  thing is that the opposition camps, abusing the people's trust and  misleading them, achieved the votes that will be <gifted> to the  representative of the Communist Party today, who received only half  as many votes as we did. Time will show,> Nazeli Baghdasaryan  concluded.