Armenia’s Parliamentary Elections: A view from Azerbaijan

Abstract

Armenia’s June 7 parliamentary elections produced a result whose significance extends well beyond the country's borders. With Civil Contract, led by current Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, securing 49.81 per cent of the vote, the Strong Armenia Alliance of Samvel Karapetyan at 23.29 per cent, and Robert Kocharyan's Armenia Alliance at 9.94 per cent, Pashinyan retains unilateral control of parliament and forms a single-party government for a third consecutive term. The outcome confirms that the post-Karabakh political dispensation in Armenia is durable: those who ran against the peace agenda were decisively rejected.