At the initiative of MPs from Yelk Alliance and Tsarukyan Faction, an extraordinary session of the parliament was convened today to discuss the amendments to the Electoral Code again, since it failed to pass a week ago.

This time, 62 MPs voted in favor of the bill, just one MP less than the 63 votes (3/5ths) needed for passage. Two MPs voted against the bill.

Most of the Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) MPs were absent. 17 HHK MPs did vote in favor of the bill. The two MPs voting against were Armen Ashotyan and Arpineh Hovhannisyan. All MPs from Pashinyan's Yelk Alliance (9MPs) and Tsarukyan faction (31 MPs) voted in favor of the bill. Five of the seven ARF MPs also voted in favor, the other two were absent.