Constitutional Court rejects ANC petition to annul parliamentary poll results

PanARMENIAN.Net - Armenia’s Constitutional Court rejected the petition of Armenian National Congress (ANC) opposition bloc to announce the results of May 6 parliamentary elections invalid, with Central Election Committee decision as to their validity remaining in force.

Earlier, ANC named blown-up voters lists, instances of repeated vote, vanishing ink stamps in passports among electoral violations.

The ruling Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) won a decisive victory at the parliamentary elections on May 6 gaining 44,02% of votes.

The coalition Prosperous Armenia party comes second with 30,12% of votes and the opposition ANC is placed third with 7,08%.

The opposition parties Heritage (5,76%) and ARF Dashnaktsutyun (5,67%), as well as the third coalition Orinats Yerkir party (5,51%) also joined the new parliament.

RPA gained absolute majority of 69 seats in the 131-member National Assembly, 40 by proportional and 29 by majority system of voting.

Prosperous Armenia got 37 seats (28 by proportional and 9 by majority systems) and ANC was left with 7.

Dashnaktsutyun and Orinats Yerkir got 6 seats each (5 by proportional and 1 by majority systems), while Heritage got 5.