BEFORE THE RACE

April 9, 2026 Author: Heghine Asiryan Nikol Pashinyan is clearly terrified by the idea that he may not be re-elected in the elections to be held on June 7, and for this he is resorting to all possible and impossible steps. He eats "Perashki and kukuruz", does charity at the expense of the state budget and raises pensions, rides the bus to regions, carries women's heavy bags and, most importantly, curses and discredits his competitors. If in the previous elections his target was the former authorities - Robert Kocharyan, Serzh Sargsyan, then this time it is the turn of Samvel Karapetyan, who was not in power, they cannot be accused of looting, nor of handing over Artsakh. Pashinyan realizes that at this stage his main political opponent, the main rival, is Samvel Karapetyan, whose rating is rising, and he is shocked by the thought that he can defeat him. Pashinyan's daily Facebook live testifies to the fact that even the ruling circles do not believe the opinion polls, according to which they are in first place and have 50+1 percent of the vote. His nerves are clearly strained and that's why he violated all norms of morality. I allow myself to declare on behalf of all of us that no civilized person has the right to call the other person a bum, even more so the Prime Minister to his citizen, regardless of what political views the given person has. "I have a direct question to the person who took over the government. what right do you have to talk about someone like that? Who are you?' Nikol Pashinyan tries to put himself in the place of God, but he is an ordinary ordinary illiterate who cannot even be compared to Karapetyan. Who gave you such a right to talk about Karapetyan with that vocabulary?