Nikol Pashinyan, the Prime Minister of Armenia, who acts, has claimed victory in a parliamentary election, had called an effort to deactivate a political crisis after a disastrous war with Azerbaijan.
With 75 percent of the declared results, the departure of the Civil Contract of Pashinyan had 55.61 percent of the vote on Monday. The electoral alliance of the superior rival of him, former President Robert Kocharyan, had 20 percent of the votes, according to the Central Election Commission (CEC).
The participation of voters was around 50 percent, with about 2.6 million people eligible to vote.
“The people of Armenia have given our party of civil contracts a mandate to lead the country and personally to lead the country as Prime Minister,” Pashinyan said early Monday.
“We already know that we won a convincing victory in the elections and we will have a convincing majority in Parliament,” he added.
However, the Kocharyan block questioned the credibility of the preliminary results and said that he would not recognize the rapid claim of Pashinyan to victory, which came when only 30 percent of the enclosures had been counted.
“Hundreds of signs of voting stations that testify for organized and planned fakes serve as a serious reason for the lack of confidence,” the block said in a statement, adding that it would not “recognize” the results until the ” Violations “.
The former president of Armenia, Robert Kocharyan, visits a voting station to issue his vote during Snap’s parliamentary election in Yerevan, Armenia, June 20, 2021 [Vahram Baghdadanyan / Fotolure through Reuters]
At the beginning of Sunday night, the Attorney General’s office said it had received 319 reports of violations. He said he had opened six criminal probes, all of which referred to bribes during the campaign.
The election is being monitored by experts from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), which recently evaluated voting as largely fair and free. They will deliver a general verdict on Monday.
The opinion polls before the election have put both the neck and neck parties. And while a record of four electoral blocks and 21 parties ran for election, it is only expected that a handful win seats in Parliament.
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Pashinyan had called the SNAP survey to try to end a political crisis that exploded after the Armenian ethnic forces lost a six-week war against Azerbaijan last year and gave up the territory in the Nagorno-Karabakh region. More than 6,500 people were killed in the war, according to the last official figures of Armenia and Azerbaijan.
Since then, Pashinyan has been under pressure, with regular protests of the street that demand that it renounce the terms of the peace agreement that completed the conflict. Under the treatment, which was negotiated by Russia, Azerbaijan regained control of the territory he had lost during a war at the beginning of the 1990s. Pashinyan himself described the agreement as a disaster, but said he had been forced to sign it to prevent Greater human and territorial losses.
From the perspective of Moscow, Pashinyan is a guarantor that the agreement will remain in place. This includes the parking lot of about 2,000 Russian peace in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Arsen Kharatyan, a former Pashinyan advisor, told Al Jazeera, the results gave the prime minister actor the opportunity to form a government “so that internal political turbulence stops.”
“Now, how are you going to handle the situation in which Armenia is? In the largest image, the security architecture of the region has not changed a lot from the war. Russia is still going to be an important player in all this. By So, whoever understands the power will have to deal with Moscow with enough directly, “Kharatyan said, adding that Sunday’s vote also showed that none of the campaigning parties in a” Pro-Western Agenda obtained enough votes. “
