YEREVAN. – The presidential election campaign in Armenia demonstrated that the main opposition force did not synchronize its actions, and this was a disappointment for some, analyst Shushan Khatlamajyan stated during a press conference on Saturday.  

In his turn, political and electoral technology specialist Armen Badalyan specifically said as follows:

“The head of the state was the leader in Armenia’s political arena; this was impermissible. The natural process of the elections is disrupted. It was necessary to make this process become devoid of seriousness, and this was succeeded to some extent, and therefore the participants in this process likewise became devoid of seriousness. There was a task of weakening the president, and this task was fulfilled.”      

Badalyan also noted that a high-quality competition was not achieved during the campaign season. As per the analysts, the political bargaining will start following the presidential vote on February 18, and since there are other political forces, as well, a pressure will be applied, and the matter of the successor of—the ruling Republican Party presidential candidate, incumbent President—Serzh Sargsyan will be raised. 

“He is not taken seriously, and the foreign observers understand this,” Badalyan noted, and added that the president-in-office will receive around 700,000 votes, and solely the present-day authorities of Armenia stand to gain from the calls for an active voter turnout.