Armenia’s ruling Civil Contract party, led by Western-backed Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, won Sunday’s parliamentary elections with 49.81% of the vote. While the result gives Pashinyan enough support to form a government, it falls short of the supermajority needed for his proposed constitutional reforms.
The election was widely seen as a referendum on Armenia’s geopolitical orientation — specifically, whether the country should continue drifting toward the European Union and away from its traditional alliance with Russia. Fyodor Lukyanov, editor-in-chief of Russia in Global Affairs, told RT that Moscow must now “re-evaluate its policies” toward its longtime ally, signaling that the Kremlin views the result as a strategic setback.
