Monday, June 21 2021 10:38

ArmInfo."The Civil Contract party will have a majority in the new parliament and will form a government," Acting Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan wrote  on his Facebook page.

As Pashinyan pointed out on his Twitter account: "Thus, according to  the preliminary results of the elections as published by the Central  Electoral Commission, in the newly-elected parliament the Civil  Contract party will have a constitutional majority (at least 71 MPs  out of 105) and will form a government led by me.> 

"As agreed, today, on June 21, we are meeting in the evening at a  march at 8:00 pm on Republic Square to hold a solemn ceremony-meeting  on the transfer of the Steel Mandate to the newly elected Prime  Minister," he wrote a few hours earlier.  On June 20, early  parliamentary elections of the 8th convocation were held in Armenia.  The CEC presented preliminary results from all 2008 polling stations  in Armenia. Three political forces enter parliament: - Civil Contract  Party - 53.92% (687,251 people) - Bloc - 21.04% (268,165  people) - - 5.23% (66 633 people)

The Prosperous Armenia party - 3.96% (50416), the Republic party -  3.04%, - 1.22% (15,557), the Armenian National  Congress - 1, 54% (19,647)  did not enter parliament.

According to the RA CEC, as of 8:00pm, the turnout for early  parliamentary elections in the whole of the Republic of Armenia  amounted to 49.4% or 1 million 281 thousand 911 people. In Yerevan,  out of 850 thousand citizens who have the right to vote, 442 846 or  51.55% have exercised their suffrage. The highest turnout was  registered in Syunik region - 60.38%. Of the 109,726 citizens  eligible to vote, 66,252 have fulfilled their civic duty.