Pro-EU ruling party leads Armenia parliamentary election, exit polls show – POLITICO

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s ruling party was comfortably ahead in the country’s parliamentary election on Sunday, according to early exit poll data.

The prime minister’s Civil Contract party had 56.7 percent of the vote, with the main opposition Strong Armenia party receiving 17.5 percent according to the first exit polls after voting ended, Armenian media reported.

The parliamentary elections, the first since Armenia ceded the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh to Azerbaijan in 2023, were a high-stakes referendum between Pashinyan, who was endorsed by U.S. President Donald Trump, and his leading opponent, the Russian-Armenian oligarch Samvel Karapetyan.