I have filed a lawsuit against Samvel Karapetyan due to accusations of using hallucinogenic mushrooms. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, who is on vacation and heads the ruling Civil Contract party’s proportional representation list of candidates for Armenia’s parliamentary elections on June 7, told this to reporters Thursday.

“When he [i.e. Strong Armenia party leader Karapetyan] made that statement and the journalist conveyed my response to him, he immediately began to claim that it was a 100 percent fact. After that, does he want to engage in politics in Armenia and says that he is strong? As soon as you say ‘I will sue and feed [him] mushrooms,’ he throws up his hands and renounces his words,” Pashinyan noted.

Also, he reaffirmed his view that the "Hayastan" (“Armenia”) and Strong Armenia blocs as well as the Prosperous Armenia Party are very quickly moving down a path that will not allow them to overcome the threshold of entering parliament.

Source: https://news.am/en/news/1035394