All surveys, as far as I know, are telephonic, which are accepted in the world. But this is usually credible in countries where there is no such internal polarization, and the society is a society with high internal confidence. Second President Robert Kocharyan, who heads the “Armenia” bloc ahead of the snap parliamentary elections on June 20, stated this at Tuesday’s press conference of the leaders of this bloc, when asked how they will win these elections if acting PM Nikol Pashinyan and his political team still have a high popularity rating.

"How do you imagine now when a person is fired for one 'like' [on social media], pressure is started to be put on his relatives? There is a large mass [of people in Armenia] who do not want to express their opinion because they believe they will be under pressure. I have no doubt that those conducting the surveys are doing their job in good faith. But the situation in the country is such that I have serious doubts," Kocharyan said.

He added: "Second, we are not saying that today's acting [PM] has no [popularity] rating. But we are also sure that it is not possible to be re-elected Prime Minister having 25-30% in the parliament if there are no other [political] forces with you that are ready to cooperate with you. The list of participants in the elections does not yet show any force that is from the same field, ready to cooperate with traitors, and which can enter the parliament. Therefore, the situation is quite clear that even if that 30% is not managed to be worn down all the way to 15-20% before the elections, this political force will not be able to form a government and establish oversight over the executive [branch of] power [in Armenia]; this is obvious. But we will do everything; we will wear it [the aforesaid popularity rating] down to the root!"