Civil Contract Party Unveils Election Program for 2026 Parliamentary Elections in Armenia
YEREVAN, April 4 – The ruling Civil Contract Party (CCP) of Armenia, led by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, has officially released its election program for the upcoming parliamentary elections on June 7, 2026. The program outlines the party’s strategic vision for the country’s future, focusing on peace, economic transformation, and institutional reforms.
Pashinyan’s Message: A New Era of Peaceful Development
The program’s preamble includes a direct message from Prime Minister Pashinyan to the citizens, stating that the CCP has fulfilled its "greatest mission" by establishing peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan. This, he asserts, has ushered in an era of peaceful development for Armenia. "In the elections on June 7, together with you, we have one task to solve: we must protect Peace, which is new, childish, still vulnerable, and needs our daily care," the message reads.
Ideological Foundations: Real Armenia and Economic Transformation
The ideological cornerstone of the Civil Contract Party’s election program is the ‘Real Armenia’ ideology and the doctrine of Armenia’s economic and institutional transformation. The program highlights that the institutionalization of peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan began in 2024 with the demarcation and delimitation of the state border in the Tavush region of Armenia. This process continued with the signing and ratification of the regulations for the joint activities of the Armenian and Azerbaijani delimitation commissions, culminating in the initialing of the Agreement on the Establishment of Peace and Interstate Relations between the Republic of Armenia and the Republic of Azerbaijan on August 8, 2025, and the Washington Declaration affirming the principles of peace and unblocking transport infrastructures.
Further steps for institutionalizing peace include the continuation of the demarcation process and the implementation of the TRIPP project. This project, consistent with the Washington Declaration of August 8, 2025, and the TRIPP implementation framework adopted by the governments of Armenia and the USA on January 14, 2026, aims to fully unblock regional communication channels. The program also emphasizes the final signing, ratification, and subsequent implementation of the pre-signed Agreement on the Establishment of Peace and Interstate Relations between the Republic of Armenia and the Republic of Azerbaijan.
Key Policy Areas: Education, Foreign Policy, and Security
A significant emphasis in the document is placed on education, declared as the "strategy of strategies." The program encompasses a balanced and balancing foreign policy, external and internal security, food and energy security, justice and public administration reforms, combating criminal subculture, digitalization, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, social solidarity, economic development, science, culture, sports, tourism, agriculture, water resources, environment, housing policy, and relations with the diaspora.
The document underscores the importance of further developing relations with Georgia, Iran, Turkey, and Azerbaijan. It also notes that relations with the Russian Federation are undergoing a constructive transformation, with Armenia aiming to develop mutually beneficial constructive relations with Russia.
European Integration and EAEU Membership
According to the program, the Republic of Armenia will continue to implement reforms necessary to meet the European Union membership criteria until it fully complies with them. It is also stated that as long as rapprochement with the EU and reforms aimed at complying with EU membership criteria are compatible with EAEU membership, Armenia will remain a member of the EAEU and will develop trade and economic relations with the member states of the union.
Church Reforms and Constitutional Changes
A separate section is dedicated to the reform of the Armenian Apostolic Holy Church. The program envisages the removal of the de facto head of the Armenian Apostolic Holy Church, the election of a Catholicosal Locum Tenens, the adoption of the Statute of the Armenian Apostolic Holy Church, and the election of the Catholicos of All Armenians.
The document also discusses the adoption of a new Constitution through the free expression of the people’s will, which, it states, should give full legitimacy to the legal order and enable the institutionalization of justice and fairness.
100 Concrete Steps for 2026-2031
The document concludes with a list of 100 concrete steps that the Civil Contract Party intends to implement between 2026 and 2031. These include an average annual GDP growth of at least 6%, a 50% increase in industrial production, the creation of at least 25,000 new jobs annually, a 5 percentage point reduction in poverty, housing provision for 10,000 families displaced from Karabakh, the establishment of a National Cybersecurity Center, the acquisition and operation of Armenia’s own space satellites, the introduction of a biometric passport system, the establishment of a free visa regime with the EU, and the reformatting of relations with the diaspora.
Source: newsarmenia.am
