After local election win, Pashinyan says voters chose ‘life’ over opposition’s ‘apocalypse’ narrative
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Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said on Tuesday that his party defeated the opposition in the local election in Vagharshapat because voters chose “life” over “apocalypse.”
“There’s been a lot of talk about why the Civil Contract party won and the opposition lost in the Vagharshapat elections,” Pashinyan said in a video on social media. “There is one overarching reason for this: the opposition was talking about apocalypse, while Civil Contract was talking about life — and people simply chose life. People are simply choosing life. In my humble opinion, the same will be true in the 2026 parliamentary elections as well, because by going through harsh trials together, we have left the apocalypse in the past, and today — and ahead of us — there is only life,” the Prime Minister of Armenia said.
The ruling Civil Contract Party garnered 49 percent of the vote in the Vagharshapat City Council election, while the opposition Victory bloc came in second with roughly 31 percent. The opposition Mother Armenia party garnered 5.5 percent. None of the five other parties running for office passed the threshold.