Kremlin congratulates Armenian people: Peskov assesses election results
The Kremlin wants the decision of the people in the early parliamentary elections in Armenia to help the country enter the trajectory of sustainable development and cope with difficulties, Dmitry Peskov, the press secretary of the Russian president Putin, told reporters on Monday, TASS reported.
YEREVAN, June 21. /ARKA/. The Kremlin wants the decision of the people in the early parliamentary elections in Armenia to help the country enter the trajectory of sustainable development and cope with difficulties, Dmitry Peskov, the press secretary of the Russian president Putin, told reporters on Monday, TASS reported.
Asked how Moscow evaluates the results of the elections in Armenia and what is its attitude towards interaction with Yerevan. Peskov assured that the Kremlin is closely monitoring the information that comes from Armenia.
‘Of course, we wish that this choice of the Armenian people helps them cope with the difficulties that the country is currently experiencing and to enter a sustainable development trajectory,” the Kremlin spokesman said.
"Including through the implementation of the trilateral agreements that were reached and signed with the direct participation of the President of Russia," he added.
Moscow welcomes the information from the Central Election Commission of Armenia that the parliamentary elections have taken place, he added.
"We see that the acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan's party won a convincing victory. We congratulate the Armenian people on their choice," Peskov noted, adding that Armenia is Russia's closest ally and partner.
The citizens of Armenia who voted in the parliamentary elections are in favor of deepening cooperation with the Russian Federation, the anti-Russian forces did not gain even 1% of the vote, Viktor Vodolatsky, the first deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee for CIS affairs, Eurasian Integration and Relations with Compatriots, told TASS. He was leading a State Duma team of election watchers.
Vodolatsky pointed out that the opposition parties "must make a very difficult decision and sit down at the negotiating table." "Civil society is divided today, but they are all united by the desire to work with Russia. Therefore, we must sit down at the negotiating table, not take people out into the streets, not provoke clashes, but sit down and agree for the good of Armenia," the MP said.
"Those parties that had tough anti-Russian rhetoric did not score even one percent. There were such parties. They work on the instructions of the State Department, they are financed by it and some parties from the EU," Vodolatsky summed up.
Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan's Civil Contract party on Monday won 53.92 percent of the votes in snap parliamentary elections, according to the results based on ballots from 100 percent of the precincts, the Central Election Commission (CEC) said.
Out of 1,281,911 people who voted in the elections, 687,251 cast their ballots in favor of Civil Contract.
The Armenia bloc headed by ex-president Robert Kocharyan, gained 21.04% (268,165 votes), the I have the honor bloc (the leader is the former director of the National Security Service Artur Vanetsyan) - 5.23% (66,633).
The Prosperous Armenia is fourth with 3.96% (50, 416), the Hanrapetutyun Party is fifth with 3.04% (38,713).
Twenty-one parties and 4 blocks took part in the early elections to the National Assembly of Armenia. The voter register includes 2,578,678 people. -0-e