Armenia’s parliament rejects opposition leader as new prime minister
2018-05-02 10:23:06 source：The Washington Post
May 1, 2018
MOSCOW -- After weeks of protests, Armenia’s parliament on Tuesday voted against making opposition leader Nikol Pashinyan the prime minister, dealing a blow to the country’s pro-democracy movement.
The vote against Pashinyan, who was the only candidate, came after demonstrations that drew as many as 100,000 mostly young people into the streets of the capital, Yerevan, and forced Serzh Sargsyan to resign as prime minister, a post he took after spending a decade as president.
The parliament voted 55 to 45 against making Pashinyan prime minister. By law, a new parliamentary vote will take place May 8. Acting prime minister Karen Karapetyan, a close ally of Sargsyan’s and a former executive at the Russian gas giant Gazprom, will stay in place.
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