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.