The Republicans won over the elections in Armenia at all the levels: on 6 May 2012 they took majority in the parliament, on 18 February they gained the victory at
the presidential election and on 5 May - at the Yerevan Council of Elders election. So the RPA has set absolute hegemony in the political field of Armenia, director of the Caucasus Institute, Aleksandr Iskandaryan, told journalists today.
"There were numerous pre-conditions for the victory of the RPA. First of all, 49% of votes gathered by the RPA candidate, Serzh Sargsyan, at the presidential election on 18 February. It would be simply naive to expect that after that RPA would gain less votes at the Yerevan Council of Elders election. So, nothing extraordinary happened on 5 May. Such distribution of forces was predictable especially after the PAP leader Gagik Tsarukyan's refusal to run for president", - Iskandaryan said.