Pashinyan demanded that Karapetyan retract his claims about a house in Canada.

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has filed a second lawsuit against Strong Armenia party leader Samvel Karapetyan, demanding a public retraction and compensation for moral damages. Pashinyan considers the statement that he owns a house in Canada slanderous.

As reported by the "Caucasian Knot," Strong Armenia leader Samvel Karapetyan stated in May that during a visit to China, Nikol Pashinyan tried hallucinogenic mushrooms at a local restaurant and enjoyed them so much that he brought back a ton of them. The next day, Pashinyan filed a lawsuit, demanding a retraction and an apology.

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has filed a second lawsuit against Strong Armenia party leader Samvel Karapetyan, demanding a public retraction and 6 million drams in moral damages, according to data from the Datalex judicial system.

According to the lawsuit, filed on June 10 in the Yerevan Civil Court, Pashinyan considers Karapetyan's May 25 statement that the prime minister owns a house in Canada to be defamatory. He demands that Karapetyan be obligated to publicly refute the information and publish this denial in video format through at least three media outlets with at least 200,000 YouTube subscribers, or, if that is not possible, on the Strong Armenia party's YouTube channel, Armenia Today reports.

Furthermore, Pashinyan is demanding that Karapetyan pay 6 million drams (approximately $16,285) in compensation for moral damages. The case is being heard by Judge Anushavan Mushegyan.

Pashinyan filed his first lawsuit against Karapetyan on May 7 over claims about "hallucinogenic mushrooms." He also threatened a third lawsuit regarding statements about plans to resettle 300,000 Azerbaijanis to Armenia. On May 29, Karapetyan filed a lawsuit against the Civil Contract Party and the Public Television of Armenia, demanding a retraction and a public apology. Caucasian Knot also reported that Samvel Karapetyan filed a lawsuit against the Speaker of the National Assembly of Armenia, Alen Simonyan, who called him an employee of a foreign intelligence service and demanded a retraction and compensation. Karapetyan demanded that Simonyan publicly refute the statement he published on social media on May 19.

Oligarch Gagik Tsarukyan's Prosperous Armenia Party, former President Robert Kocharyan's Armenia bloc, and businessman Samvel Karapetyan's Strong Armenia bloc are the most pro-Russian candidates in the parliamentary elections. The pro-Russian opposition's result in the parliamentary elections in Armenia can only be characterized as a loss, while the ruling party, although it did not achieve its key goal, held its position, analysts noted earlier.

The parliamentary elections effectively became a referendum on the future of the current government and Armenia's foreign policy, according to the "Caucasian Knot" report "2026 Elections to the National Assembly (Parliament) of Armenia".