According to a recent telephone poll conducted on behalf of the International Republican Institute’s Center for Insights in Survey Research, most residents of Armenia believe the country is headed in the “wrong direction”.

The International Republican Institute (IRI) is an American nonprofit organization founded in 1983 and funded and supported by the United States federal government. Most of its board is drawn from the U.S. Republican Party.

When asked if “Armenia is heading in the right direction or the wrong direction?”, 49% of respondents answered, “in the wrong direction”.

Respondents cited “national security and border issues” as the main problems Armenia now faces, followed by the “economy/unemployment”, “political instability”, and “bad government”.

Sixty-one percent of respondents said they don’t trust any politician in Armenia. Only 12% said they trusted Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan

Nevertheless, Pashinyan’s Civil Contract party remains the favorite when respondents were asked who they’d vote for if parliamentary elections were held the following week. 

Seventeen percent named the Civil Contract party, slightly down from the 20% in polls conducted in 2024 and 2025.

Twenty-eight percent of all respondents said they’d abstain from voting at all. The percentage of non-voters was highest in the 18-35 age bracket (37%)․

Regarding foreign relations, 87% of respondents named Azerbaijan as the “greatest political threat” to Armenia, followed by Turkey (79%) and Israel (27%)․

Iran topped the list as Armenia’s “most important political partner (53%), followed by France (48%) and India (43%).