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Escalating Rhetoric Threatens Armenia’s Faltering Democratic Path
3 July 2025
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Pashinyan Targets Remnants of Old Regime as Election Showdown Looms
10 June 2025
For over a week now, the Armenian public has been subjected to another unedifying spectacle between the country’s political and spiritual leadership. Tirades posted on social media by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan targeting Armenian Catholicos Karekin II, who he accuses of fathering at least one child despite an oath of celibacy, have been incendiary. The allegation is not new. Armenian media even named an alleged daughter back in 2013. However, Pashinyan’s wife, Anna Hakobyan, further ratcheted up tensions by referring to some members of the clergy as paedophiles while not presenting any evidence.
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Georgia's presidential election
28 October 2018
Voting has closed in elections to choose a new president. 25 candidates contested the election, with over three million voters eligible to vote. Voting proceeded largely peacefully and briskly throughout the day. Turnout appeared to be similar to that in presidential elections in 2013, but 3-4 % lower than in parliamentary elections in 2016.
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Ivanishvili throws full weight behind Zurabishvili ahead of Sunday presidential elections
25 October 2018
Ivanishvili's marathon TV interview received very mixed response, with GD supporters hailing it as a genuine reflection of the current reality, whilst opposition parties, and some civil society organisations, strongly criticised Ivanishvili's stance on governance and media freedom.
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Pashinyan resigns to trigger early elections
17 October 2018
In an emotional televised speech Pashinyan told Armenians: "I love you all, I am proud of you all, I bow before you all, I kiss you all."
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Pashinyan pushes for December elections amid political turmoil
3 October 2018
After all night negotiations with parliamentary factions the Armenian prime minister says the parties that dominate the legislature must succumb to the will of the people
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Landslide victory for Pashinyan's "My Step" party in elections for Yerevan city council
24 September 2018
Pashinyan and his political team have secured 81.06% of votes in the important elections, which were the first electoral test since the popular protests in Armenia in the spring
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Yerevan poll tests Pashinyan's popularity
23 September 2018
Twelve political forces are fielding candidates for the sixty-five person city council, who in turn will choose the city's mayor
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Pashinyan postpones visit to US to vote in Yerevan Council elections
19 September 2018
The elections for the Council of Elders will be the first test of Pashinyan's popularity with voters since the events of last spring which brought him to power amid street protests.
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Georgian Dream will support Salome Zurabishvili in forthcoming presidential election
10 September 2018
Announcing the decision, Parliament Chairman Irakli Kobakhidze said that the Georgian Dream had kept its promise not to support one of its own members for the post of president.
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Giorgi Margvelashvili will not contest forthcoming presidential election in Georgia
1 September 2018
The incumbent Georgian head of state said that he will continue to be at the service of the Georgian people and will contribute to Georgia's national interest in other ways