Armenia's Acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan Bloc Wins By Landslide In Snap Vote

Fahad Shabbir (@FahadShabbir) Published December 10, 2018 | 06:18 PM

Armenia's acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has won a landslide victory in snap parliamentary elections, results showed Monday, cementing his authority months after he swept to power in a peaceful revolution.

Yerevan, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 10th Dec, 2018 ) :Armenia's acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has won a landslide victory in snap parliamentary elections, results showed Monday, cementing his authority months after he swept to power in a peaceful revolution.

Pashinyan, a 43-year-old former journalist, has pledged to root out endemic corruption and address widespread poverty in the impoverished landlocked ex-Soviet republic of about three million people.

With all votes counted, the bloc led by Pashinyan's Civil Contract party had taken 70.43 percent of the vote, the central election commission said.

The Prosperous Armenia party led by influential oligarch and former arm wrestler Gagik Tsarukyan came a distant second with 8.27 percent.