NIKOL PASHINYAN

Armenian PM wins snap vote by landslide With all votes counted, the bloc led by the acting prime minister’s Civil Contract party had taken 70.43% of the vote, the central election commission said on Monday, cementing his authority months after sweeping to power in a peaceful revolution

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The Prosperous Armenia party led by influential oligarch and former arm wrestler Gagik Tsarukyan came a distant second with 8.27%. Pashinyan hailed his win, thanking the “mighty people” of Armenia 3

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