Pashinyan’s Civil Contract would not have cleared vote threshold if he had observed law, says Hayots Hayrenik member

The June 20 snap parliamentary elections were unprecedented in the history of Armenia in a sense that they were marked by the misuse of administrative resource both by the ruling party and the opposition, according to the authorities, a representative of the Hayots Hayrenik (Armenian Homeland) Party, Artak Galstyan, said on Wednesday.

In his closing speech at the Constitutional Court hearings on the opposition demands to overturn the official results of the elections, he insisted the misuse of administrative resources and hateful rhetoric did not have a positive effect on the other political forces running in the elections.

"I am convinced that if Nikol Pashinyan had observed the law and had not stayed in power after his resignation, the Civil Contract Party would not...