Pashinyan claims parliamentary majority after winning Armenia voteJune 21, 2021 - 10:30 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Civil Contract party will have a constitutional majority in parliament and form a government, Armenia's caretaker Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said in a Facebook post on Monday, June 21, after his party won snap parliamentary elections a day earlier. Pashinyan’s Civil Contract party won 53.92% of the vote, while Hayastan (Armenia) bloc headed by second President Robert Kocharyan secured 21.04% of the ballots. "I Have Honor" bloc too will get seats in the parliament. Pashinyan earlier summoned supporters to the Republic Square in downtown Yerevan at 8:00 pm on Monday to "hold a solemn ceremony of handing over the people's steel mandate to the newly elected Prime Minister." Top stories The Cabinet of Ministers decided on Thursday, November 9 to allocated AMD 120 million to arrange the gathering. Michael Roth believes sanctions must be put on the table after Baku‘s ethnic cleansing in Nagorno-Karabakh. The Yerevan City Council has elected Tigran Avniyan from the ruling Civil Contract as the mayor of the Armenian capital. The Armenian Parliament on Tuesday, October 3 voted to ratify the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. Partner news | Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty. Aliyev says no need for mediators in Armenia-Azerbaijan process Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev believes that Baku and Yerevan do not mediators in the process of normalizing relations. Aram I supports Karekin II’s “patriotic position” Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia Aram I has expressed support for the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin. U.S. believes peace is “possible” in South Caucasus The United States continues to believe that peace is possible in the South Caucasus, Vedant Patel said. |