Pashinyan party’s approval rating at 17.8%, behind the 20.6% for Karapetyan’s party – CAEAC Focus poll
ArmInfo.info
The political landscape and the balance of political forces in Armenia’s pre-election period continue to shift. According to a rapid poll conducted by the CAEAC Focus sociological center from May 4 to 10, 2026, the ruling Civil Contract party, led by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, is losing to Samvel Karapetyan’s Strong Armenia bloc.
The CAEAC Focus report notes that Samvel Karapetyan’s Strong Armenia bloc is almost 3 percentage points ahead of the ruling Civil Contract bloc (20.6% versus 17.8%). According to the results of the survey, the votes of approximately 60% of voters who intend to go to the polls would be distributed among the main political forces as follows:
United Opposition (Karapetyan/Kocharyan/
It should be noted that CAEAC Focus (Free Alliance of Euro-Asian Sociologists) is an international network of volunteer sociologists conducting sociological research, surveys, and sentiment monitoring in the post-Soviet countries. The focus is on the countries of Euro-Asia, particularly Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, and Azerbaijan, with a focus on issues of politics, international relations, and security.

