Parties’ cooperation with sectarians in order to gain votes should be strictly condemned, according to the member of the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) Gagik Minasyan.

“Should the fact be proved, it will incur severe legal punishment,” Minasyan stated.

“Politicians are using faith as a tool to help them gain their ends,” Alexander Amaryan, the head of the Center for Aid and Rehabilitation to the Victims of Destructive Cults stated earlier.

“This is characteristic for all post-soviet countries, including Armenia,” he added.