The Constitutional Court must ensure that the votes of 58,500 citizens are not lost, Prosperous Armenia Party (PPA) representative Aram Orbelyan said during his closing argument in the Constitutional Court hearing on challenges to the parliamentary election results. He argued that the election results should be declared invalid. If that is not possible, he said, a new mandate allocation formula should be adopted, under which PPA would receive five parliamentary seats.

According to Orbelyan, PPA received 58,500 votes, exceeding the 4% electoral threshold. However, he said that after voting results from several polling stations were invalidated, the party ultimately fell below the threshold required to enter parliament, Sputnik Armenia reported.

In his assessment, voters clearly intended for PPA to be represented in parliament.

"Mr. Hovakimyan (Central Electoral Commission Chairman Vahagn Hovakimyan — editor's note) did not answer a simple question: if those results had not been invalidated, would PPA have entered parliament? Of course it would have. Instead, he said, 'Well, I can't...' Someone apparently told him not to agree. Had they told him to answer, he would have answered. This is a dispute about the supremacy of the Constitution, and you are obliged to uphold constitutional supremacy," Orbelyan said.

He also stressed that if there is any doubt over whether PPA cleared the electoral threshold, the presumption should be that the party entered parliament. Otherwise, he argued, a nationwide repeat vote should be called.

Closing arguments were also delivered by Srbuhi Galyan, Minister of Justice and representative of the Civil Contract Party, which participated in the case as a third party.

Galyan said the political forces challenging the election results had failed to provide sufficient evidence demonstrating that violations occurred or that any alleged violations were significant enough to influence the final outcome, according to Hetq.

"The applicants were required to prove not only the existence of the alleged violations but also their impact on the election results. They failed to do so," Galyan said, adding that election results cannot be invalidated on the basis of assumptions.

Addressing allegations of abuse of administrative resources, she argued that the claims referred to the government's routine activities.

"What was the government supposed to do? Suspend its work? Stop implementing measures предусмотрված under its government program?" she said.

According to Galyan, the process of introducing universal health insurance, for example, has been underway for many years.

She also argued that if administrative resources had already predetermined the election outcome, it would be unclear why an extensive election campaign had been conducted. In her view, not a single case had been presented to the Constitutional Court proving the unlawful use of administrative resources or demonstrating that such actions influenced voters' free expression of will.

Representatives of the Civil Contract Party also maintained that no evidence of widespread electoral violations, relevant official records, or criminal complaints had been submitted.

Responding to allegations that campaign spending limits had been exceeded, Galyan said no evidence had been presented showing that the party incurred undeclared expenses. On the contrary, she said, Civil Contract had declared the largest campaign expenditures.

Galyan did not address accusations concerning hate speech in detail, describing them as illogical and noting that the issues had already been examined by the Corruption Prevention Commission. She also argued that the harsh rhetoric had not been directed at citizens. Meanwhile, she said, representatives of Strong Armenia, the Hayastan Alliance, and other parties that appealed to the Constitutional Court had attempted to mislead voters by raising the issue of the return of 300,000 Azerbaijanis but had failed.

Concluding her remarks, Galyan stated that there are no legal grounds for invalidating the election results.

Parliamentary elections were held in Armenia on June 7, with the participation of 16 political parties and two alliances. According to the preliminary results, PPA received 4% of the vote and was eligible for parliamentary seats. The Central Electoral Commission later invalidated the results from three polling stations, causing Prosperous Armenia to lose 213 votes. Under the final count, the party received 58,287 votes, or 3.9893%, falling just below the 4% threshold. The CEC published the final results on June 14.

At its June 14 session, the Central Electoral Commission finalized the election results. Three political forces entered parliament: the Civil Contract Party with 64 seats, Strong Armenia with 29 seats, and the Hayastan Alliance with 12 seats.