"The government took every step to reproduce itself." EDWIN TAMAZIAN

The June 20 elections were meant to resolve the issue of internal mistrust and the legitimacy of the authorities in Armenia, but according to analysts, the crisis deepened. With the persuasion of the opposition forces, Pashinyan's government and the CP party were simply reproduced by the use of soft power, counter-propaganda and the use of all government levers. Edwin Tamazyan, a member of the "Armenia" bloc, considered the elections as a proxy represented by the political force he represents. According to his testimony, all the well-known electoral fraud schemes, for which the Pashinyan government criticized the previous ones, took place in the elections. "I witnessed how the people of Nikolaev directed the citizens to vote in their favor, ballots were taken out of the precinct, our precinct was cut off, and for a few minutes it was not known what was happening with the ballot boxes," recalls Tamazyan. According to the politician, on that day there was an order from the top to use violence, threats and to silence the active figures of the opposition. The representative of the opposition emphasizes that until now there are names of citizens who have died or who have not lived in the territory of the Republic of Armenia for a long time, which are managed at the discretion of the authorities and voted in their favor. "In my polling station, I noticed people who entered the polling station with the ballot paper in their hands, I noticed people who voted twice, that's why the CEC published 100 percent voter turnout in a number of settlements, which is practically impossible," Edwin Tamazyan told us.