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Pashinyan: Most votes for three opposition forces in elections were bought
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan claimed in his parliamentary speech that 70 percent of the votes cast for three opposition forces in the recent elections were bought. According to final results, while the Civil Contract Party won 64 seats, two opposition blocs entered parliament and the Prosperous Armenia Party remained below the threshold.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan claimed that 70 percent of the votes cast for three opposition forces in the recent parliamentary elections were bought.
Pashinyan made this statement during government question time in parliament. Among the entities he named were the "Powerful Armenia" and "Armenia" blocs formed by businessman Samvel Karapetyan and former President Robert Kocharyan, as well as the "Prosperous Armenia Party" led by Gagik Tsarukyan.
Final results set the parliamentary arithmetic
According to final results announced on June 14, three political forces will take part in the new Armenian parliament. The ruling Civil Contract Party won 64 seats.
The "Powerful Armenia" bloc won 29 seats, and the "Armenia" bloc won 12. Thus, Pashinyan's party achieved a majority to form a government on its own.
According to final results, the Prosperous Armenia Party failed to surpass the 4 percent threshold in the June 7 elections and did not enter the new parliament.
Appeal preparations and debates
Opposition forces had earlier announced their intention to challenge the election results at the Armenian Constitutional Court.
Pashinyan, on the other hand, argued that the distribution of votes did not reflect the real tendencies in society. This statement brought the debates over the election results back to the forefront of the agenda.
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