For reasons incomprehensible to me, several people and mass media are intensively preparing for snap elections of the Yerevan Council of Elders. Tigran Avinyan, a board member of the ruling Civil Contract Party and former Deputy Prime Minister of Armenia, wrote this on Facebook.

"And in that context, they have come out to an undeclared ‘war’ by weaving and disseminating fabrications and manipulations on an almost daily basis, with or without a reason.

In a more active political period, I intend to reflect on some matters thoroughly, so that the manipulation does not become the truth by constantly repeating [it]. But until then, I want to recall that the next [regular] elections of the Yerevan Council of Elders are in the fall of 2023," Avinyan added.