Top candidate on party`s electoral list to be interim leader,  ensuring Samvel Karapetyan`s rise to power - party rep 

ArmInfo.  The number one candidate on the Strong Armenia Party's electoral list, if the political party wins the parliamentary elections scheduled for June 7, 2026, will become the interim leader, ensuring party chairman Samvel Karapetyan's rise to power. Narek Karapetyan, a member of the Strong Armenia Party Council, stated this in an interview with the Armenian  television channel Kentron, when asked why he is first on the party's  electoral list if Samvel Karapetyan is the party's candidate for  prime minister.

"The number one candidate on our party's electoral list will play an  interim role. He will be responsible for initiating amendments to the  Constitution of Armenia, specifically Article 148, which concerns the  requirements for government representatives and determines who can  serve as prime minister.

This, in turn, will ensure the appointment of Samvel Karapetyan as  prime minister of Armenia," explained a member of the party council.

Recall that on February 13, 2026, lawyer and party member Aram  Vardevanyan, responding to statements by representatives of the  ruling Civil Contract party that, according to the Constitution of  Armenia, Karapetyan cannot serve as prime minister because he holds  both Armenian and Russian citizenship, noted that the path to his  candidacy for the post lies through constitutional amendments.  Specifically, Vardevanyan explained, through amendments to Article  148, which concerns the requirements for government representatives  and determines who can serve as prime minister.

On April 15, during a court hearing at the Armenian Anti-Corruption  Court in Yerevan, Samvel Karapetyan announced that he had begun the  process of renouncing his Russian and Cypriot citizenship.