"Zhoghovurd" daily writes: "Ahead of the regular elections of 2026, the voting of the second round of approval of the electoral list of the "Civil Agreement" party took place with interesting arithmetic nuances.
According to "Zhoghovurd" daily newspaper, 988 delegates took part in the voting held on Saturday-Sunday out of 1080 delegates. As a result, Nikol Pashinyan received 933 votes, the highest result. Numbers, however, also have their "interlinear" history: 55 of the 988 participating delegates did not actually "see" Pashinyan as a candidate for Prime Minister or simply could not find the right orientation in the ballot made up of CP candidates.
"Zhoghovurd" daily learned that about three dozen CP members wrote other names on the ballots instead of the name of the prime minister candidate, for example, Suren Papikyan, Ararat Mirzoyan, Tigran Avinyan and others. Thus, if we count with cold arithmetic, Pashinyan received 933 votes out of 988 participants, which is about 94.4%. And the remaining 5.6% either approached the vote creatively or tried to remind that even in internal elections competition sometimes appears where it is not officially planned.
In fact, the issue of the prime minister's candidate within the KP is, according to the numbers, largely resolved, but thanks to the "free creators" of the ballots, the topic got a different substratum. To what extent is the idea of a single candidate comparable to pluralism, even within the party?"
Details in today's issue of "Zhoghovurd" daily.
