Observer organizations, however, stressed the need to strengthen Armenia’s democratic landscape given several internal and external factors that played out in the election campaign.
In a social media post, Macron called the result a “resounding victory” and offered his warm congratulations to the Armenian leader.
Armenia’s Ministry of Internal Affairs police today arrested Alik Aleksanyan, a senior member of Samvel Karapetyan’s Strong Armenia Party on suspicion of money laundering and paying citizens to attend the businessman’s election rallies.
A 22-member delegation of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), headed by Damien Cottier (Switzerland, ALDE), will travel to Armenia from June 5 to 8 to observe the parliamentary elections․
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The Moscow-backed Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) will deploy 120 observers to Armenia for the country’s June parliamentary election.
The party, led by Russian-Armenian businessman Samvel Karapetyan, is seen as the main challenger to Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan’s Civil Contract party in the election that will decide the country’s next prime minister.
Due to dual citizenship restrictions preventing him from being prime minister, his nephew, Narek Karapetyan, has been selected as the party's candidate for the post.
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