Acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s alliance scored a landslide victory in Armenia’s snap parliamentary elections, capturing more than 70 percent of the vote and giving the Caucasus nation what he called a “revolutionary majority.”
RFE/RL: Pashinian alliance scores ‘revolutionary majority’ in landslide Armenian win
A photo taken on April 17, 2018 shows opposition leader Nikol Pashinyan speaking during an opposition rally in central Yerevan while parliament elected the country's ex-president as prime minister under a new parliamentary system of government.Before these protests, Pashinian was most closely associated with the tragic events of 2008, when 10 people died in clashes between police and supporters of Sarkisian's beaten opponent in a presidential election.
