The Armenian National Assembly, in a second round of voting today, elected Vahagn Khachaturyan Armenia’s fifth president.

71 MPs, all members of the pro-government Civil Contract faction, voted in favor of Khachaturyan, who had been serving as the country’s Minister of High-Tech Industry.

Opposition Hayastan and With Honor MPs boycotted the vote.

Khachaturyan, an economist by profession, held the post of Yerevan mayor from 1992 to 1996, and was a member of the National Assembly until 1999.