
Armenian election commission rejects appeal to deregister main opposition group
Samvel Karapetyan’s Strong Armenia alliance was the main challenger to the ruling Civil Contract party.

Samvel Karapetyan’s Strong Armenia alliance was the main challenger to the ruling Civil Contract party.

The arrests follow nationwide raids targeting an alleged scheme to pay citizens to attend political rallies.

Samvel Karapertyan claimed that none of his alliance members ‘know how to launder money’.

Voters are set to choose the country’s next ruling party in what will be the first regularly scheduled parliamentary vote since 2017.

Following Samvel Karaprytan’s detention in June 2025, Pashinyan said that the time had come to nationalise the ENA.

The Canadian–American lawyer has emerged as a key mouthpiece of opposition Russian–Armenian oligarch Samvel Karapetyan.

The revelations were the latest in a series of leaked documents that have been made public in the runup to the election on 7 June.