Armenian Justice Minister Srbuhi Galyan addressed the Constitutional Court's ongoing review of challenges to the election results in a Facebook video, responding to claims by representatives of Strong Armenia that the Anti-Corruption Committee had unfairly targeted their political force, affecting the outcome of the vote.

She said that if the Anti-Corruption Committee had not identified the political force involved, every party would have come under suspicion.

"The issue concerns the detection of vote-buying, which has resulted in 258 defendants in various criminal cases, 182 of whom are representatives of Strong Armenia. Some of them were also parliamentary candidates on the alliance's electoral list. I am stating these as facts, yet this political force claims that the Anti-Corruption Committee targeted them.

I asked whether it would have been appropriate for the Anti-Corruption Committee not to specify in its public statements which party had allegedly benefited from the suspected bribery.

The representative of Strong Armenia said yes, that would have been the right approach. The representative of the Hayastan Alliance also said yes. Surprisingly, the representative of Wings of Unity said yes as well. Only the For the Republic party gave a clear answer that no, because an anonymous statement would have cast suspicion on everyone," Galyan said.

She added that, for example, the Civil Contract party had no involvement whatsoever in vote-buying, and questioned why it should bear responsibility for non-specific public statements.

On June 26, the Constitutional Court began hearing a consolidated case based on appeals filed by seven political forces challenging the results of the June 7 regular parliamentary elections. The proceedings are continuing.