Armenian election officials name three leaders in snap parliamentary polls
10.12.2018,
03:50
Armenia's acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan's electoral bloc My Step was in the lead according to early results in Sunday's snap parliamentary elections.
YEREVAN, December 10 /ARKA/. Armenia's acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan's electoral bloc My Step was in the lead according to early results in Sunday's snap parliamentary elections.
The two-party bloc led by Pashinayn's Civil Contract has received 70.28 percent of the votes, after election officials counted the ballots in 1078 precincts of the total 2010.
With 8.30% of the vote the Prosperous Armenia party was trailing in second place. The Bright Armenia was third with 6.45% of the votes.
The former ruling Republican Party of Armenia has received - 4.38%, the Social Democratic Party Citizen Decision - 0.67%, ARF Dashnaktsutyun - 4.27%, the Christian Revival – 0.50%, the National Progress party - 0.34%, the We bloc - 2.07%, the Orinats Yerkir party - 1.03% and the all-Armenian party Sasna Tsrer - 1.75%.
About 2.6 million people were eligible to vote in the election monitored by more than 17,000 local observers from 22 public organizations, as well as 505 foreign observers from eight organizations - the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE / ODIHR), the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE ), the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), the CIS Inter-Parliamentary Assembly (IPA CIS), the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (OSCE PA), the European Parliament, and the European Network of Election Monitoring Organizations (ENEMO).
There is no turnout threshold, however, to enter the parliament, a party must secure more than 5 percent of the vote and alliances must get over 7 percent. At the same time, according to the law, at least three political forces must be represented in parliament. -0-
The two-party bloc led by Pashinayn's Civil Contract has received 70.28 percent of the votes, after election officials counted the ballots in 1078 precincts of the total 2010.
With 8.30% of the vote the Prosperous Armenia party was trailing in second place. The Bright Armenia was third with 6.45% of the votes.
The former ruling Republican Party of Armenia has received - 4.38%, the Social Democratic Party Citizen Decision - 0.67%, ARF Dashnaktsutyun - 4.27%, the Christian Revival – 0.50%, the National Progress party - 0.34%, the We bloc - 2.07%, the Orinats Yerkir party - 1.03% and the all-Armenian party Sasna Tsrer - 1.75%.
About 2.6 million people were eligible to vote in the election monitored by more than 17,000 local observers from 22 public organizations, as well as 505 foreign observers from eight organizations - the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE / ODIHR), the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE ), the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), the CIS Inter-Parliamentary Assembly (IPA CIS), the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (OSCE PA), the European Parliament, and the European Network of Election Monitoring Organizations (ENEMO).
There is no turnout threshold, however, to enter the parliament, a party must secure more than 5 percent of the vote and alliances must get over 7 percent. At the same time, according to the law, at least three political forces must be represented in parliament. -0-
