Armenian authorities needed external backgdrop to support and push  process in Vagharshapat to necessary point - MP

ArmInfo. The Armenian authorities needed an external backdrop to support and push the process in Vagharshapat to the necessary point, and then those responsible for anti-state activities against the Church, the nation,  and their own society would come into play. This is what Tigran  Abrahamyan, a member of the RA National Assembly from the opposition  "I Have the Honor" faction, wrote, commenting on RA Prime Minister  Nikol Pashinyan's statement regarding the results of the elections in  the enlarged Vagharshapat community.

According to Abrahamyan, Pashinyan, speaking about the electoral  success of the ruling Civil Contract party candidate, stated that  this would give new impetus to the attack on the Mother See of Holy  Etchmiadzin. This scenario, as the opposition member noted, was  discussed before the elections, and from the very beginning it was  clear that the ruling party needed to take control of the city not in  the classical sense, but in the context of actions against the  Supreme Patriarchate.

"This was the reason for concentrating all the country's resources on  Vagharshapat, as this was not a public initiative, but a stage in an  attack on their own country. Although the "State Duma" candidate in  Vagharshapat himself avoided speaking out against the Catholicos, the  authorities' expectations of him were different. The authorities  needed an external backdrop to support and bring the process to the  necessary point, and then those responsible for anti-state activities  against the Church, the nation, and their own society would come into  play," Tigran Abrahamyan emphasized.

As a reminder, Nikol Pashinyan stated on his Facebook page that by  their vote, voters demonstrated their unequivocal support for the  "Civil Contract" strategy of strengthening statehood, independence,  sovereignty, and freedom. "By your vote, you have given an important  impetus to the process of liberating the Mother See of Etchmiadzin  from Ktrich Nersisyan (the secular name of the Catholicos, which is  unacceptable to use in relation to the clergy)," the RA Prime  Minister wrote. It should also be noted that the Central Electoral  Commission has published preliminary vote count results from all 47  polling stations for the Vagharshapat Council of Elders and Community  Headship, based on the counting of 31,508 votes cast at all 47  polling stations. Currently, the Civil Contract party and its mayoral  candidate, Argishti Mekhakyan, have received 15,296 votes (48.5%). In  second place is the Victory bloc candidate, Sevak Khachatryan, with  10,050 votes (31.9%). In third place is the Mother Armenia bloc and  its candidate, Grisha Harutyunyan, with 1,692 votes (5.4%). The  remaining parties have received less than 5% of the vote.