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Former Chief of Staff of the Constitutional Court of Armenia and former Armenian Ambassador to Poland Edgar Ghazaryan welcomed the victory of the Shant alliance in Sunday’s local elections in Kapan.

The bloc led by Gevorg Parsyan garnered 13,962 votes, defeating by a wide margin Nikol Pashinyan’s Civil Contract party.

"We need to move from defeats to victories, as we see that this is entirely possible,” Ghazaryan wrote on Facebook on Monday.

“The protest movement against Nikol Pashinyan should be led by [newly elected head of the Goris community] Arushan Arushanyan and Gevorg Parsyan.

“These very men have proved capable of defeating Nikol Pashinyan whether in freedom or in prison,” he said, adding they won the elections despite the harassment against them and the unprecedented use of administrative and financial resources by the ruling party.

“The victorious atmosphere in Kapan should be transferred to Yerevan’s Republic Square,” he said, stating the road issues will be resolved after the removal of the current government.