Pashinyan Hints New Election Will be Held in 2018

May 16, 2018

Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan chair cabinet meeting

YEREVAN (RFE/RL)””Prime Minister Minister Nikol Pashinyan suggested on Tuesday that fresh parliamentary elections sought by his political team will be held in Armenia later this year.

Pashinyan demanded the conduct of such elections immediately after tens of thousands of his supporters demonstrating in the streets of Yerevan forced his predecessor Serzh Sarkisian to resign on April 23. Observers believe that he and his political allies would win them by landslide.

Sarkisian’s Republican Party of Armenia holds the majority of seats in the current parliament. It is therefore in a position to block key bills drafted by Pashinyan’s government.

The premier was asked by reporters about fresh elections as he walked from one ministry building to another to present newly appointed members of his cabinet to their staffs. “We will discuss that,”

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