If Pashinyan is so brave, let him return territories seized by  Azerbaijan - Gagik Tsarukyan 

ArmInfo.If Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan is so brave, then let him liberate and return to the  Armenian people the strategic positions in Syunik where the Azerbaijanis have established their military units. This was stated by Gagik Tsarukyan, leader of the Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP), during the election campaign in the Armavir region.

According to the PAP leader, it is the current government's inability  to negotiate that has led to Azerbaijan occupying Armenian  territories and the Armenian prisoners of war being held in Baku. "He  has done nothing for the Armenian people. He's lying when he says  there won't be a so-called 'Western Azerbaijan' here. Meanwhile, from  June 18th to 19th, Azerbaijan will hold a congress in Nakhichevan on  the topic of 'Return to Western Azerbaijan.' Therefore, the Armenian  people today essentially face a choice: vote for someone who 'builds  churches or someone who destroys them,'" Tsarukyan emphasized.

The PAP leader also recalled Pashinyan's statements against Andranik  Tevanyan, the number two candidate on their election list, that he is  a 'traitor to the homeland.' According to Tsarukyan, the Armenian  prime minister has made similar accusations against him. "But let him  prove that I'm a spy. If he does, then I'll come to the square myself  and let them shoot me." But if he can't prove it, then let him come  and enter my lion's cage-a male lion, at that," Tsarukyan concluded.

On May 21, the Investigative Committee of Armenia announced the  opening of a criminal case against Andranik Tevanyan for "treason and  espionage." Tevanyan is accused of transferring information  containing state secrets to a foreign state for $622,000. On the  night of May 24, Tevanyan was placed under two-month arrest by court  order. Moreover, according to Tevanyan's lawyer, Aram Orbelyan, there  were no legal grounds for his client's arrest. It should be added  that the opposition figure was detained on the direct orders of  current Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. Tevanyan himself  called the investigation's allegations absurd, noting that he  resigned his parliamentary mandate in 2023 and, therefore, such  allegations by the Investigative Committee are baseless. Gagik  Tsarukyan also demanded evidence of the espionage accusations against  the party's number two candidate on the proportional list, Andranik  Tevanyan, expressing confidence that everything said about Tevanyan  is slander, and that he is a decent, courageous man and a patriot.