Two parties have announced their lists for the parliamentary elections in Armenia.

The Armenian National Congress Party has nominated former parliament member Levon Zurabyan as its prime ministerial candidate. Bright Armenia does not have a prime ministerial candidate, and the party has suggested the opposition consolidate around Mikael Ajapayan, Primate of the Shirak Diocese. As reported by the Caucasian Knot, more than a dozen Strong Armenia Party supporters have been detained on charges of giving and receiving election bribes. The Strong Armenia Party and the Armenia bloc should not clear the parliamentary election threshold, as they are only there to collect salaries, the Prime Minister stated amid the case against representatives of the Strong Armenia party.

Two parties in Armenia have named candidates from the first part of their list for the upcoming parliamentary elections.

The Bright Armenia Party has announced the first five candidates on the list with which Edmon Marukyan's Bright Armenia party is preparing to participate in the upcoming parliamentary elections. Edmon Marukyan, Karpis Pashoyan, Shushan Avagyan, Gevorg Gorgisyan, and Suren Gyurzhinyan.

According to Marukyan, the party called on the opposition to unite. "We put forward proposals, explained with examples, saying, respected oppositionists, change is possible, power can be changed through elections, but for this there is an important condition - there must be one government and one opposition. "Everyone discussed it and decided that no, there must be many oppositions and one government. Under these conditions, the following happened: since there is no great consolidation, numerous opposition forces are participating in the elections," News.Am quotes him as saying.

The Bright Armenia Party has not nominated a candidate for prime minister in the national elections to be held on June 7, but proposes considering the candidacy of the Primate of the Shirak Diocese, Archbishop Mikael Ajapakhyan, for president. According to party leader Edmon Marukyan, since the opposition cannot unite around a candidate for prime minister, Archbishop Mikael's candidacy for president could become a starting point for unification. opposition.

The Armenian National Congress also presented its candidates; the party's founder and leader is the first president of Armenia, Levon Ter-Petrosyan.

The list of candidates is headed by the party's deputy chairman, Levon Zurabyan, who is also the party's candidate for the post of prime minister.

He is followed by Aram Manukyan, Tatev Zoryan, Samvel Abrahamyan, Avetis Avagyan, Eva Adamyan, Aleksan Hakobyan, Aram Baghramyan, Lilik Tarlamazyan, and Mamikon Kanoyan, Armenpress reports.

As a reminder, Samvel Karapetyan's Strong Armenia party announced its intention to participate in the National Assembly elections, which will take place on June 7. According to analysts, Karapetyan's party, Prime Minister href="https://www.kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/205141">Nikol Pashinyan and former President Robert Kocharyan will be key competitors in the elections.

The most pro-Russian parties in the Armenian parliamentary elections are Samvel Karapetyan's "Strong Armenia", Robert Kocharyan's "Armenia", and Gagik Tsarukyan's "Prosperous Armenia". The Kremlin is betting on Karapetyan, but he cannot participate in the elections in accordance with the law, Armenian political scientists pointed out.

The "Caucasian Knot" has prepared a report "2026 Elections to the National Assembly (Parliament) Armenia".