Prime Minister Nicol Pashinyan's main challengers, the newly formed Armenia Alliance, lagged behind with 21% of the vote, according to the election commission. On Monday, country’s electoral commission announced that Nicol Pashinyan and his Civil Contact party won the Armenian parliamentary election with 53.92% of the votes, Radio Liberty reports.
According to the Central Election Commission, the third place was taken by the block "I have the honor" with the leader Arthur Vanetsyan with 5.22%. It is noted that this political force has not overcome the barrier of 7%, but despite this, it will enter parliament, as it has become the third largest vote.
Observers from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) declared the "overwhelmingly positive" election to have been "competitive and well run". Its report released on Monday said "fundamental freedoms key to democratic elections were generally respected" in Sunday's "highly transparent" polls.
Just one other party, led by businessman Gagik Tsarukyan, was likely to clear the 5% threshold and get seats in parliament, according to early results on Sunday evening.