Karapetyan stated that the elections are not over, and the ruling party will not win

YEREVAN, June 8. /ARKA/. The parliamentary elections in Armenia are not over yet, and the results are not yet in, stated Samvel Karapetyan, leader of the Strong Armenia party and president of the Tashir Group holding.

"They (the ruling Civil Contract party - ed.) will not achieve the victory they desire, because even from their interviews, from their facial expressions, you can already tell that things are going badly for them. With only 30% of the data (vote counts from 30% of polling stations - ed.), they claim to have already won, but you know that 30% is just the results from rural areas. As soon as the results began to be tallied in the cities, the results began to decline very quickly. Therefore, they have resorted to special measures, and we have no idea what they are doing," he stated. Several hours earlier, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan declared the parliamentary elections in Armenia valid and declared the Civil Contract party the winner, who would form the government on their own. At that time, the Central Election Commission had processed ballots from approximately 20% of polling stations, with the following breakdown: Civil Contract - 54.8%, Strong Armenia bloc - 22.02%, Armenia bloc - 8.56%, and Prosperous Armenia - 5.38%.

Karapetyan said that the Strong Armenia party would issue a statement on the election results in the morning, after the final results were received.