Armenians praise fair elections, as Pashinyan wins

Armenians reacted to the results of parliamentary elections on Monday which showed that the party of acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan won snap elections that he called to ease anger over a peace deal that he signed with Azerbaijan.

With all precincts counted, Pashinyan’s Civil Contract party won 53.9% of the vote. A bloc led by former President Robert Kocharyan was in a distant second place with about 21%, the election commission said on Monday. Pashinyan called the early election after months of protests demanding his resignation because of the peace deal that he signed to end six weeks of fighting with Azerbaijan over the Nagorno-Karabakh region.