The ruling Civil Contract party confirmed on Friday plans to pass legislation that would block further attempts to install an outspoken opposition lawmaker as deputy chairman of a key standing committee of Armenia’s parliament.
Pro-government lawmakers dismissed on Wednesday U.S. democracy watchdog Freedom House’s strong criticism of recently enacted legislation allowing Armenian authorities prosecute people insulting state officials.
Parliamentary leaders of the ruling Civil Contract party and Armenia’s two leading opposition blocs have reached no agreement so far on practical modalities of investigating the causes and outcome of last year’s war in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Economy Minister Vahan Kerobian downplayed on Thursday the significance of a roadblock which Azerbaijan has set up on the main highway connecting Armenia with Iran to check and tax Iranian vehicles.
Former President Robert Kocharian has told senior members of his opposition Hayastan alliance to intensify its political activities and public outreach efforts.
Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS) has drafted legislation that would require the government to provide “personal doctors” to Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian, parliament speaker Alen Simonian and members of their families.
The arrested mayor of an Armenian town affiliated with the main opposition Hayastan alliance is running in a local election that will be held next month.
Armenian government officials declined to attend on Thursday official ceremonies in Stepanakert to mark the 30th anniversary of the establishment of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic.
Pro-government lawmakers prevented on Tuesday one of their opposition colleagues from becoming the deputy chairman of a key standing committee of the Armenian parliament.
The two opposition groups represented in Armenia’s new parliament said on Tuesday that they will ask the Constitutional Court to declare illegal the continuing detention of two opposition lawmakers.
The Armenian authorities deployed scores of security officers on Monday to seriously restrict journalists’ freedom of movement inside the parliament building in Yerevan.
The Central Election Commission (CEC) formally registered on Thursday the 107 members of Armenia’s new parliament, among them two arrested opposition figures, which was elected on June 20.
Former President Serzh Sarkisian has again accused Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian of making last year’s war in Nagorno-Karabakh inevitable with his “reckless and irresponsible” policy on the conflict with Azerbaijan.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian replaced his chief of staff on Thursday for the second time in six months.
Armenia’s Central Electoral Commission has officially summed up the results of the June 20 snap parliamentary elections, reaffirming the landslide victory scored by acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s Civil Contract party and rejecting opposition demands for annulling the results.
Former President Robert Kocharian’s main opposition Hayastan alliance said on Monday that it will ask Armenia’s Constitutional Court to overturn the official results of Sunday’s parliamentary elections that gave a landslide victory to the ruling Civil Contract party.
Campaigning officially ended in Armenia on Friday for Sunday’s parliamentary elections which appear to be the most unpredictable in the country’s history.
Armenia’s former Prime Minister Karen Karapetian and former top army general, Onik Gasparian, have urged voters to back an opposition alliance led by former President Robert Kocharian in Sunday’s general elections.
Former President Serzh Sarkisian has condemned Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s threats to “hammer” political foes after Sunday’s parliamentary elections and warned that an opposition alliance led by him would put up a stiff resistance to any violence.
Former President Robert Kocharian pledged on Friday to restore security and stability in Armenia, kick-start the domestic economy and deepen the country’s ties with Russia if an opposition alliance led by him wins the June 20 elections.
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