Justice Minister Srbuhi Galian declined to clarify on Wednesday how the Armenian government will try to enact a new constitution demanded by Azerbaijan in the absence of a two-thirds majority in Armenia’s newly elected parliament.
Russia on Wednesday continued to question the official results of Armenia’s parliamentary elections and demand that the Armenian government choose between seeking to join the European Union or remaining part of a Russian-led economic bloc.
An exiled activist from Nagorno-Karabakh arrested on May 18 right after publicly arguing with Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian in Yerevan remained on hunger strike for the 22nd day on Tuesday.
Law-enforcement authorities have detained and indicted a Russia-based Armenian national who voiced fears of post-election unrest in Armenia when he arrived in Yerevan to vote in Sunday’s legislative polls.
Prosecutors reported new criminal charges against businessman and opposition leader Gagik Tsarukian on Tuesday just as his Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) scrambled to ensure its presence in the country’s new parliament through vote recounts initiated by it.
Former President Robert Kocharian’s Hayastan alliance said on Tuesday that it will ask Armenia’s Constitutional Court to annul the official results of Sunday’s parliamentary elections that have also been rejected as fraudulent by other opposition groups.
Underscoring its deepening rift with the Armenian government, Russia said on Monday that the weekend parliamentary elections in Armenia were not democratic and exposed a “noticeable” decline in public support for Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
The European Union on Monday congratulated Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on winning Armenia’s weekend parliamentary elections and reaffirmed support for his pro-Western foreign policy.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and his Civil Contract party won Armenia’s weekend parliamentary elections with just under half of the vote, according to their preliminary official results rejected by the two main opposition contenders.
Armenian opposition leaders accused Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian of trying to rig Sunday’s parliamentary elections after he rushed to claim victory with less than one fifth of ballots cast counted.
Armenia’s three main opposition groups said law-enforcement authorities continued to arrest scores of their members and supporters as voting began in parliamentary elections on Sunday.
Armenians voted on Sunday in parliamentary elections that will extend or end Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s eight-year rule and pro-Western foreign policy increasingly resented by Russia.
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