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Sargsyanâ€™s main opponents left out from parliament

03 April 2017 11:37 (UTC +04:00)

The Central Electoral Commission (CEC) of Armenia has virtually completely calculated the preliminary results of Sunday’s National Assembly election, APA reported citing news.am.

As of Monday 12pm, the CEC has received the respective data from all of the 2,009 election precincts in the country.

Accordingly, the ruling Republican Party of Armenia is in a considerable lead, with 49.12 percent of votes tallied.

Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) Dashnaktsutyun Party won 6.57% (103,173) of votes. Among blocs, Tsaurkyan Bloc won 27.32% (428,965) votes, and Yelk [Way Out] Bloc 7.77% (122,049 votes).

According to the CEC preliminary data, the voter turnout in the parliamentary election was 60.93 percent.

Five political parties and four blocs ran for parliament on Sunday.

Political parties have to get 5 percent of votes, whereas the blocs need 7 percent to be elected to the Armenian parliament.

Thus, the main opposition forces – the bloc (1.65%), represented by Armenian National Congress, headed by Armenia’s first president Levon Ter-Petrosyan, and People's Party of Armenia, headed by Stepan Demirchyan, the son of former speaker Karen Demirchyan who was killed in a parliament shooting in 1999, the Ohanyan-Raffi-Oskanian bloc (2.7%), headed by former defense minister Seyran Ohanyan, former foreign ministers Raffi Hovhannisyan and Vartan Oskanian (1991-1992 and 1998-2008 respectively), as well as the Free Democrats Party (0.94%), the Communist Party of Armenia (0.75%) and the Armenian Revival Party (3.71%) have lost their chances to run for the parliament.