JRL NEWSWATCH: “Armenia’s prime minister wins sweeping majority in election; Pashinyan set to consolidate strong mandate for revolution that swept him to power” – Financial Times/Max Seddon

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“Armenian prime minister Nikol Pashinyan consolidated a strong mandate for the revolution that swept him to power this year as his party won … early parliamentary elections …. [His] My Step party garnered 70.5 per cent … [T]he majority Republican Party, whose leader he ousted, failed to clear the 5 per cent barrier to win seats. “

Pashinyan is a 43-year-old former journalist who had led a mass protest movement forcing longtime former president Serzh Sargsyan to resign.  Armenians had been frustrated over corruption and the previous ruling party’s control of a dying economy.

“In … appearances … Pashinyan suggested that pro-Republican mayors should be ‘smeared on the asphalt’ and said the security services should ‘deal with” his opponents.'”

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