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.
In a move which critics say is aimed at giving the ruling Civil Contract party a more comfortable majority in Armenia’s new parliament, the Central Election Commission (CEC) has annulled parliamentary election results in two precincts.
Billionaire Samvel Karapetian’s Strong Armenia alliance, the runner-up in Sunday’s parliamentary elections, demanded on Thursday the scrapping of their official results that gave victory to the ruling Civil Contract party.
Russia banned more food imports from Armenia on Thursday as the Armenian government offered greater financial aid to domestic farmers, agribusiness firms and beverage producers that will find new exports markets.
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