YEREVAN, June 9. /TASS/. The elections to the Armenian parliament were held under unprecedented government pressure on the opposition and open interference of the collective West in the internal affairs of the state, Eduard Sharmazanov, former deputy speaker of the Armenian parliament and a member of the Republican Party of former Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan, said in an interview with TASS.
He said that even during its April 4 congress, the Republican Party of Armenia signaled the beginning of rigging of the parliamentary polls. According to him, even then there was an unprecedented pressure on the opposition and external support from the collective West for the current Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. "Even then, the main opposition candidate Samvel Karapetyan was under house arrest, and criminal cases were initiated against other opposition candidates. There was an unprecedented spread of hate speech, an unprecedented use of administrative resources by the authorities. I am not even talking about the external assistance to this regime unseen in the history of Armenia. We saw the arrival of European leaders who expressed their open support for Pashinyan. No one has rebuked French President Emmanuel Macron, who intervened in our internal affairs. The same was done during the visit of US Vice President JD Vance, later of Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Later the statement of US President Donald Trump," the politician said.
