Candidates from the ‘Menk (Us)’ alliance held a flashmob in Yerevan. They distributed cupcakes to passersby and to drivers, and also posed for pictures.
Deputy candidate Artak Zeynalyan said that the cupcakes have a symbolic meaning. With these cupcakes, they want to say that we are giving you a piece of our share. If you would like to, you can also give us your votes.
Deputy candidate Aram Sargsyan, answering the question from Azatutyun radio about what they noticed during the campaigns, said, “Only My Step does not have anything to worry about, since they will obviously win. The other parties have to worry about being represented in parliament and if they will be able to get enough votes. It’s winter, therefore it is difficult to spend a lot of time with people on the streets or to hold large rallies. We have to go to those people ourselves. We go from backyard to backyard. We even talk to people from balconies. You don’t realize how many votes you’ll get from these sorts of interactions.”
Regarding criticism that the main interactions are between the RPA and My Step, Aram Sargsyan continued, “The RPA has good tactics. During the mayoral elections, Nikol Pashinyan put the problem between black and white. The RPA took this and said that they’re black, or that you’re there and the rest aren’t. They’re trying to get the people who aren’t voting for Nikol Pashinyan to vote for them. I don’t welcome this. Nikol Pashinyan and his team are also taking part in this provocation. In reality, they never were there. They lived under Vazgen Sargsyan’s, Robert Kocharyan’s, and Serzh Sargsyan’s umbrellas. We were on the streets. We fought and we were arrested. The RPA does not understand that the reasons for its failures are due to the fact that it wasn’t honest. There was only one person in the RPA who was honest, and who said that they were wrong, and Nikol was right.”
Arpine Simonyan
