The Quote in Full
Tatoyan's Facebook post: 'Nikol Pashinyan's statement that Civil Contract is forming a government single-handedly and has won the elections is unconstitutional and exceeds the prime minister's powers. The head of government has no authority to make such a statement... when slightly more than 10 percent of voting results have been counted, when not even 10 percent of Yerevan results are summarised.' He continues: 'we consider this a blatant illegal influence on the CEC for the purpose of affecting the electoral results, which is criminally punishable.'
The framing matters. Tatoyan is a former Armenian Ombudsman -- the post that operates the national preventive mechanism and the human-rights monitoring apparatus -- and his constitutional vocabulary is not loose. 'Exceeds the prime minister's powers' is a specific Article 132 framing under the Armenian constitution. 'Criminally punishable' aligns with Article 154 of the Armenian Criminal Code on obstructing electoral functioning.
The Counter-Threat Section
Tatoyan then turns to Pashinyan's parallel threat to prosecute opposition leaders -- the 'they will sit' quote -- and rejects it on the same constitutional ground: 'The Prime Minister has no such authority [to threaten opposition leaders]. This is a gross violation of the law.' Tatoyan is naming Pashinyan, not as a political opponent, but as a subject of a potential criminal proceeding for electoral interference.
Whether the Armenian justice apparatus will entertain such a proceeding against a sitting prime minister is the political question. The doctrinal question -- whether Tatoyan's reading of the constitutional and criminal-code text is correct -- is, by the test of standard Armenian constitutional commentary, harder to dismiss than the political reception in pro-government media will suggest. OWL is documenting Tatoyan's framing because the post-vote week will be shaped by which framing prevails.
Sources: Azatutyun.am, 7 June 2026 (Tatoyan / Saghatelyan / Marukyan rebuttals)