Prime Minister Pashinyan confident people will extend government mandate in 2026 elections

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan expressed confidence that the people will extend the governing mandate of his party in the 2026 parliamentary elections.

"I have great confidence that in the 2026 parliamentary elections, the people will extend the mandate given to us to govern Armenia, because the people are the authors of the peace agenda policy we are pursuing," Pashinyan said.

He noted that the Civil Contract Party entered the 2021 elections with a standard military-patriotic program typical of the Third Republic, but the people changed that logic.

“We do not have an institution to change the election program after the elections, but during the campaign there was a shift in the political narrative and perception, which is reflected in the government program,” he said.

Pashinyan reminded what is written in the government program:  the greatest commitment of the 2021-2026 administration is to open an era of peaceful development.