Armenia Court Rejects Bid to Overturn Election Result
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- Armenia's Constitutional Court rejected the Strong Armenia opposition bloc's request to overturn the June parliamentary election results, ruling on Saturday to uphold the outcome.
- Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan's ruling Civil Contract party took almost 50% of the vote, securing re-election with a near-absolute parliamentary majority.
- Strong Armenia, the pro-Russian opposition bloc, won 23.3% of the vote and alleged irregularities in the poll as the basis for its legal challenge.
- Opposition groups complained of a wave of pre-vote arrests that targeted their parliamentary candidates and supporters, claims they said tainted the process.
- International electoral observers acknowledged allegations of vote-buying and other violations but concluded that voting had proceeded smoothly across most polling stations.
- State news agency Armenpress reported the court's ruling, which closes the formal legal path for opposition appeals against the election outcome.
Why it matters: The ruling removes the last legal avenue for Armenia's pro-Russian opposition to challenge Pashinyan's mandate, leaving Civil Contract's near-50% parliamentary majority intact and locking in Yerevan's pro-Western orientation against continued Moscow-aligned resistance.
