RFE: Armenians Voting In Landmark Parliamentary Elections
YEREVAN – Armenians are voting in snap parliamentary elections nine months after hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in protests that led to a peaceful change of government and ignited new hopes of more democratic rule.
Preelection opinion polls have indicated that acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s My Step alliance is the big favorite to win the December 9 vote.
It was Pashinian, a former anticorruption journalist, who led the demonstrations that forced long-entrenched leader Serzh Sarkisian to step down from office.
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WNU Editor: Acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian is using this vote to weaken his predecessor's party in the parliament and to cement his leadership of the country. My prediction is that he is going to be successful.
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