The Hayastan alliance has appealed to ambassadors and election observers accredited in Armenia, stating that the pre-election period is unfolding amid unacceptable political tensions and has clearly moved beyond the boundaries of normal political competition.
The alliance said it expects an appropriate response and assessment, as well as an urgent meeting to discuss in greater detail and evaluate what it described as the unconstitutional course adopted by the authorities.
“Alongside growing public manifestations rejecting the current regime, the authorities are attempting to silence political opponents, neutralize citizens’ freedom of speech, suppress free expression of will, and deepen the atmosphere of fear and internal hostility in the country.
The unconstitutional and criminally prosecutable conduct and methods adopted by the deepening authoritarian regime make free and competitive elections impossible.
The regime pursues only one goal — to secure its own reproduction through the unacceptable use of force and administrative resources against opposition forces and dissenters.
This goal is served by punitive and unconstitutional actions, including:
Criminal prosecutions and persecution, institutional repression.
Selective justice and open abuse of administrative resources.
The obvious dependence of the judiciary, which prevents unconstitutional actions by the authorities from receiving legal assessment.
Open and public punitive instructions by the head of the regime to the prosecution and law enforcement systems, including directives to imprison or punish political opponents.
/On May 17, 2026, an Armenian citizen hanged himself in a psychiatric institution after being isolated by law enforcement one day earlier on accusations of damaging an N.P. campaign poster./
Public intimidation of society, individual citizens and leaders of opposition forces, threats of reprisals and calls for revenge.
Use of obscene language, targeted attacks, hate speech, deepening internal division and hostility, and creating an atmosphere of fear and intimidation.
On May 18, during a live broadcast, Nikol Pashinyan issued unprecedented threats against the three main political opponents as well as ordinary citizens, accompanied by calls for revenge and profanity-laced speech.
Unfortunately, the double standards, biased approaches and non-addressed behavior of international organizations deepen the atmosphere of impunity in Armenia, discredit international institutions, undermine faith in democracy and seriously call into question the collective West’s interest in the formation of genuinely democratic governance in Armenia,” the statement said.
The election campaign that began on May 8 will continue until June 5. June 6 will be a day of silence, and elections will be held on June 7.
