What Simonyan Said
ARMENPRESS -- APRIL 4, 2026
"Civil Contract is Armenia's most democratic party that belongs to the people."
Let's fact-check that claim against what OWL has documented.
What "Most Democratic" Looks Like
OWL INVESTIGATIONS
| DEMOCRATIC CLAIM | REALITY (DOCUMENTED BY OWL) |
|---|---|
| "Belongs to the people" | Half of donors deny donating. Money routed through oligarch's bank. Prosecutor General blocks the investigation. |
| "Most democratic" | 18-year-old in ICU for standing in church. PM said "Don't look at me like that." Faces 2-5 years. |
| "Democratic party" | Court banned a film about Armenia's own Declaration of Independence. Hidden for 5.5 years. |
| "Belongs to the people" | $63M from foreign NGOs placed 20+ people in government. Not the people -- the pipeline. |
| "Democratic" | 5 opposition arrested for vote-buying. CC's own fraud? Case closed by their own Prosecutor General. |
| "Party of the people" | 6 war threats with zero intelligence basis. Their own FIS says war is "highly unlikely." |
| "Democratic" | Predator spyware deployed on Armenian citizens. NSS deputy wrote surveillance expansion paper. |
| "Belongs to the people" | PM's daughter worked for the gambling king while betting grew 17x. Regulation came after she left. |
Who Is Alen Simonyan?
OWL INVESTIGATION
The man calling his party "most democratic" is the same Speaker who:
- Spat on an opposition MP during a parliamentary session -- the Ombudsman refused to condemn it
- Flew to Mykonos on a private jet (VistaJet Challenger 850) with gambling mogul Vigen Badalyan and Anna Hakobyan's brother -- one month before Predator spyware was documented in Armenia
- Called opposition parties "parties of war" -- echoing Pashinyan's fear-mongering campaign
- Presided over a parliament that stripped immunity from 3 opposition MPs
- Led the vote that elected Vardapetyan as Prosecutor General 70-0 while opposition boycotted
The Hidden Microphone Confirms It
While Simonyan calls his party "democratic," OWL exposed this week that the NSS is using parents of missing soldiers as informants against other parents. A man whispered to Pashinyan -- not knowing about the hidden microphone -- that he's "fighting against the parents" on behalf of the NSS.
This is what "Armenia's most democratic party" does: it infiltrates grieving families with secret agents.
The Speaker who spat on a colleague calls his party "most democratic." The party that arrests teenagers, bans films, deploys spyware, fakes donors, and infiltrates mourning families -- is "the people's party." In a truly democratic country, this statement would be comedy. In Pashinyan's Armenia, 64 days before elections, it's a campaign slogan.
Source: Armenpress (April 4, 2026). All investigations referenced are documented on owlorg.com with public sources.