YEREVAN – The party of Armenia’s acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has won snap elections, the country’s electoral commission said.
Preliminary results from all 2,008 polling stations give the Civil Contract party 54 percent, it added.
The opposition Armenia alliance led by ex-President Robert Kocharyan is a distant second with 21 percent. The block has alleged election fraud.
The vote was called after Armenia’s defeat in a war with Azerbaijan over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region.
Last year, Azerbaijan regained control of large swathes of the mountainous region, which it lost to Armenia during the first Nagorno-Karabakh war in 1988 to 1994.
The region is internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan.(BBC)
