FILE PHOTO: Armenia's acting Prime Minister and leader of Civil Contract party Nikol Pashinyan visits a polling station to cast his vote during the snap parliamentary election in Yerevan, Armenia June 20, 2021. Lusi Sargsyan/Photolure via REUTERS
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Armenia's acting prime minister, Nikol Pashinyan, kept power in a parliamentary election that boosted his authority despite being widely blamed for a military defeat last year in the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave, results on Monday showed.
Pashinyan's Civil Contract party won 53.92% of votes cast in Sunday's snap election, preliminary results showed. Former President Robert Kocharyan's Armenia Alliance trailed on 21.04%, and questioned the result, Interfax news agency reported.
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