
The Civic Contract party led by Nikol Pashinyan suffered defeats in local elections in 15 out of 36 enlarged communities of Armenia on Sunday.
This time as well, Nikol Pashinyan attempted to shift the blame on the former authorities and present his team’s defeat as an achievement for the country.
"No matter how obvious it may seem that the priorities of our agenda are related to external challenges, I must state, however, that this quality of local self-government elections, where the citizen is the Master and Decision Maker, is a long-held dream come true,” he wrote on Facebook on Monday.
“I understand the point of view that it is better to rig elections but have a higher level of security, however I have been and remain convinced that it was the long-standing practice of election fraud which undermined the state resistance system formed in the early 1990s and led to security disasters as a result of chain reactions,” he noted.
“The statehood and state institutions must be the guarantee of our future,” Pashinyan added.
Many people in the comments below his post confessed their love for "Mr. Prime Minister" and urged him to act more decisively, use the “hammer and put ...
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