In a statement, the party said that the new Constitution, the new political situation ‘obliges and gives opportunity for restoration, creation and development of powerful, ideological political parties’.
“We will take this path. The time of alliances of small parties created at the imperative of the moment is over. After the election the National Democratic Union will initiate a program of supplementing and developing of the party with the aim of re-assuming the role in the state that it had in the initial period,” it said.
Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan resigned on October 16 to trigger the process of disbanding the parliament.
Pashinyan took office after massive protests in April forced president-turned PM Serzh Sargsyan to resign. But Sargsyan’s Republican Party (HHK) still has most seats in the 105-seat parliament. Since taking office, Nikol Pashinyan has numerously said that the incumbent parliament doesn’t represent the people and that early elections s...
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