Justice Minister Davit Harutiunian on Thursday strongly criticized the head of the European Union mission in Armenia for questioning the credibility of the country’s Central Election Commission (CEC) dominated by government loyalists.
Armenia will continue to seek closer links with Qatar despite serious sanctions that have been imposed on it by Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries, a senior government official in Yerevan said on Thursday.
The Armenian government remains confident that economic growth in the country will accelerate to at least 3.2 percent this year, Finance Minister Vartan Aramian said on Thursday.
Members of the opposition Yelk (Way Out) faction in Armenia’s newly elected parliament sought on Friday to convince the ruling Republican Party (HHK) to keep a standing human rights committee despite the decision to reduce the number of such committees from 12 to 9.
Voters in Yerevan went to the polls on Sunday to elect a new municipal council that will appoint the Armenian capital’s mayor.
Zaruhi Postanjian, one of the two opposition candidates in the upcoming mayoral elections in Yerevan, on Friday urged voters to help her end Republican Party (HHK) rule in Armenia which she denounced as a “dictatorship.”
Ara Abrahamian, a businessman leading Russia’s largest Armenian Diaspora organization, admitted on Tuesday that he did not expect the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) to comfortably win last month’s parliamentary elections.
Campaigning officially began on Friday for next month’s municipal elections in Yerevan which will pit the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) against two opposition groups led by relatively young politicians.
An Armenian law-enforcement body launched on Wednesday a criminal investigation into a secretly recorded audio suggesting that employees of a pro-government businessman were told to help him get reelected to parliament or lose their jobs.
Citing a lack of time and funds, Armenia’s leading vote-monitoring organization said on Tuesday that it is unlikely to deploy many observers during next month’s mayoral elections in Yerevan.
Former President Levon Ter-Petrosian’s opposition alliance on Friday appealed to Armenia’s Constitutional Court to annul the official results of the April 2 parliamentary elections because of what it called serious irregularities.
Georgia’s Foreign Minister Mikheil Janelidze welcomed a new agreement on deepening Armenia’s relations with the European Union during an official visit to Yerevan on Tuesday.
Former President Levon Ter-Petrosian’s opposition alliance said on Friday that it will ask Armenia’s Constitutional Court to annul the official results of the April 2 parliamentary elections because of what it called widespread vote buying and other “systematic” irregularities.
A coalition of Armenian civil society organizations claimed on Wednesday to have obtained evidence that at least several hundred ballots were cast in place of citizens who did not vote in the April 2 parliamentary elections.
The opposition Yelk alliance, which finished third in the Armenian parliamentary elections, accused the authorities of large-scale vote buying but essentially accepted the official vote results on Tuesday.
Nikol Pashinian, one of the leaders of the opposition Yelk alliance, insisted on Thursday that it will make a strong showing in Sunday’s Armenian parliamentary elections.
An Armenian civic organization on Friday claimed to have collected evidence that public school principals across Armenia are illegally pressurizing their staffs and students’ parents to vote for the ruling Republican Party (HHK) in the upcoming elections.
The ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) on Tuesday denied responsibility for a series of violent attacks widely attributed to the ongoing parliamentary election campaign.
The opposition Armenian National Congress (HAK) accused the authorities on Thursday of doing nothing to stop what it called widespread vote bribes handed out by pro-government candidates in the upcoming parliamentary elections.
Campaigning for Armenia’s upcoming parliamentary elections officially began at the weekend, with President Serzh Sarkisian expressing confidence that his Republican Party (HHK) will win them and remain in power.
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