The ruling Civil Contract party has drafted legislation that would effectively disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of Armenian nationals living abroad and Russia in particular.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian pledged on Wednesday to “crush” the leaders of Armenia’s three main opposition groups that won at least 37 percent of the vote in the June 7 parliamentary elections.
French and Greek soldiers joined an annual U.S.-Armenian military exercise that began in Armenia on Wednesday amid the South Caucasus country’s heightened tensions with Russia.
Following Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s repeated pledges to have the leaders of Armenia’s main opposition groups imprisoned, prosecutors have asked the Central Election Commission (CEC) for permission to bring more criminal charges against former President Robert Kocharian.
Two more opposition parties announced on Tuesday that they will ask Armenia’s Constitutional Court to invalidate the official results of the June 7 parliamentary election rejected by them as fraudulent.
A local government employee in a border village in northern Armenia claims to have been forced to resign after dismissing as misleading the official results of the June 7 parliamentary elections in her community.
The secretary of Armenia’s Security Council, Armen Grigorian, met with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s top foreign policy aide, Hikmet Hajiyev, in the Armenian resort town of Dilijan at the weekend.
Independent vote-monitoring groups on Monday joined the Armenian opposition in challenging official results of the June 7 parliamentary elections that gave victory to Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s Civil Contract party.
Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan met with his European Union counterparts on Monday, indicating the Armenian government’s intention to continue moving closer to the European Union despite economic sanctions threatened or already imposed by Russia.
Former President Robert Kocharian was banned from leaving Armenia on Sunday as Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian reaffirmed his pledges to imprison him and the leaders of other major opposition groups accusing him of rigging the June 7 parliamentary elections.
The Central Election Commission (CEC) formally declared Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s party the winner of Armenia’s June 7 parliamentary elections on Sunday after scrapping vote results in three precincts that could have given the Armenian opposition more parliament seats.
Billionaire Samvel Karapetian proposed on Friday a run-off vote between his Strong Armenia alliance and the ruling Civil Contract party as he continued to reject the official results of the June 7 parliamentary elections.
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