“We will break the arms and legs of those who hand out election bribes”: Pashinyan

October 29 2026, 12:50

Politics

Nikol Pashinyan, Prime Minister of Armenia, spoke about election bribes during a briefing, saying they “will break the arms and legs of those who hand out election bribes — in the political sense of the word.”

“People talk about certain individuals and claim that one has 50 votes, another has 100, and a third has 200. In the Republic of Armenia, every person has only one vote. And anyone who turns out to have more than one vote is my class enemy. Destroying these people is my political duty.

Whoever dares to say that they have 25 votes, I will come for them personally. In 2018, we had a non-violent, velvet revolution of love and solidarity, but for this category of citizens, the Great October Socialist Revolution will begin. They must be eradicated,” Pashinyan said.