YEREVAN, June 8. /TASS/. 'Armenia,' the opposition bloc led by former president Robert Kocharyan, will contest the outcome of the latest parliamentary election and discuss its next steps with other opposition forces, its leader said.
"We will contest the results of the elections. At this point, we are discussing next steps with our colleagues from the opposition spectrum. Our approaches regarding further actions will be published once these discussions are over," Kocharyan said in a statement posted on Facebook (Facebook is banned in Russia due to its ownership by Meta, which has been designated as extremist).
In his words, "one thing is for sure: we will not back down."
At the same time, the former president said the election process was held amid pressure from the authorities and was accompanied by arrests of opposition activists.
"The elections were held amid widespread pressure from the authorities, arrests of opposition figures, unprecedented misuse of the administrative resource and irregularities committed during the voting process," he said.
