During local elections authorities suffered defeat in places where they had claimed victories - opposition lawmaker

The best assessment of the local elections held in Armenia on Sunday was given by Nikol Pashinyan himself, who actually admitted that the rulingCivic Contract party had failed, opposition lawmaker from 'Armenia' bloc Artur Khachatryan told a briefing in parliament. In the words of Khachatryan, Pashinyan was trying to justify the defeat by their busy activities around external challenges.

The MP remarked that authorities were denying the case of vote-buying, however, both in yesterday's and previous local elections the state was quite generous in offering social assistance to residents of the same communities which couldn't come ...