The Civil Contract already knows the Constitutional Court’s decision, which is why it has started distributing positions – analyst

While the Constitutional Court is still examining the results of the 2026 parliamentary elections, the ruling Civil Contract party has already announced its candidates for Speaker, Deputy Speaker and head of the parliamentary faction. The opposition has criticized the move, arguing that distributing positions is inappropriate before the Constitutional Court issues its final ruling.

According to political analyst Armen Badalyan, the government’s actions reflect its confidence that the Constitutional Court’s decision will not alter the political situation.

“The leader of the Civil Contract party, Nikol Pashinyan, has already stated that, regardless of the Constitutional Court’s decision, there will be no new elections. The current composition of the Constitutional Court was not approved to make independent decisions. We must remember that since 1996, when the opposition first challenged election results, the Constitutional Court has always ruled in favor of the incumbent authorities. Only after the 2003 presidential election did it propose holding a vote of confidence, but that initiative was rejected by the second president,” Badalyan said in an interview with Aysor.am.

According to him, the experience of the past 35 years shows that the Constitutional Court has consistently sided with the incumbent authorities in election-related cases.

“Therefore, we can say that the Prime Minister already knows what decision the Constitutional Court will make, which is why they have started distributing positions. The Civil Contract has a clear program and is pursuing it consistently. The opposition has no program; it acts according to the moment, trying to play by the ruling party’s rules and defeat the Civil Contract, but it cannot. The Civil Contract has its own strategy and program. Whether it is legal or not is another matter – no one seems to care, and society is not particularly interested either,” he said.

Badalyan also said he finds it strange that the opposition calls on its supporters to protest outside the Constitutional Court, yet only a few hundred people attend:

“This once again shows that the opposition does not have its own rules of the game. It is trying to prove something in the Constitutional Court that may be true, but it will not be able to prove it. The opposition does not acknowledge its mistakes and seems to believe it is always right. It has a serious problem communicating with the public. It is pursuing a deeply flawed strategy, and it is difficult to achieve results that way.”