Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s party has won Armenia’s parliamentary election, preliminary results suggest, in a vote seen as a test of its handling of a peace deal with Azerbaijan and its growing turn to the West and away from traditional ally, Russia.
Pashinyan’s Civil Contract party secured 49.81 percent of the vote, the country’s Central Election Commission (CEC) said on Monday, with an alliance led by the main opposition party Strong Armenia a distant second with 23.29 percent.
Turnout in the landlocked country of three million was more than 58 percent of eligible voters, the CEC said.
The prime minister is seeking a mandate to reorient the country’s geopolitics, distancing former imperial ruler Russia and pushing to join the European Union.
Pashinyan claimed a “historic victory that will ensure Armenia’s eternity and development”. He pledged to “continue the course of rapprochement with the West” while also developing Armenia’s relations with Russia.
Al Jazeera’s Lou Browne reports.
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