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Campaigning for municipal elections in Yerevan officially ended on Friday with more reports of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s party forcing public sector workers to attend its mayoral candidate’s meetings.
Armenia’s ruling Civil Contract is facing more allegations of electoral foul play after scores of schoolteachers and other public sector employees were spotted attending its mayoral candidate Tigran Avinian’s campaign rallies in Yerevan.
Armenia’s top election official allied to Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has dismissed a civic group’s claims that the ruling Civil Contract party is abusing government resources to facilitate its victory in upcoming municipal polls in Yerevan.
Hundreds of Armenian civil society activists as well as a group of Ukrainians and Russians staged a protest in central Yerevan on Wednesday against a summit of the Moscow-led Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) hosted by Armenia and attended by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s Civil Contract party has won a repeat election held in Armenia’s southern Ararat province amid accusations of foul play voiced by opposition figures, election observers and some media outlets.