The results of the Yerevan Council of Elders elections raise many questions. Tigran Avinyan, candidate for mayor of Yerevan, announced this in his speech.
He said the elections also answered several fundamental questions and recorded essential facts. "The official results of the elections accurately express the voting image of the citizens who went to the polling stations. To the extent that the mandate distribution map would look fundamentally different if 53 votes were distributed a little differently. It is also a telling fact that no political force appealed the election results."
According to Avinyan, the results of the elections, the absence of significant violations during the campaign, and the voting prove the principles adopted by the "Civil Contract" party to the values of the famous, non-violent, velvet revolution of 2018.
"At the same time, it should be noted that the forces defending the values of the 2018 Revolution received the overwhelming majority of votes due to the elections.
Regardless of what opinion these forces expressed towards each other during the pre-election period, they appeared before the voters as the bearers and defenders of the values of the Revolution, and therefore, the overwhelming majority of citizens voted for the Revolution and democracy, which is the most outstanding achievement of the Revolution. Therefore, any attempt to share those votes with the anti-state, corrupt, and anti-democratic forces will mean usurpation the votes given by the citizens by the anti-democratic forces," he said.
Avinyan expressed his opinion that the vote of confidence given to the Revolution by the results of the elections should be defined. "And it is essential not only to prevent the voices of the voters who voted for the Revolution from serving the goals of those who stand against the Revolution, those who question the independence and sovereignty of Armenia but also to ensure the ordinary course of large-scale capital investments and reforms that began in Yerevan.
This is also important from the point of view of uniting around our statehood, not turning Yerevan into a theater of instability dictated by the outside world."