Former Justice Minister of Armenia: Civil Contract Party is two votes  short of majority in parliament

ArmInfo. The Civil Contract Party is just two votes short of a 3/5 majority in parliament. Former Justice Minister and former Deputy Speaker of the Armenian Parliament Arpine Hovhannisyan wrote this on her Facebook page, referring to the preliminary vote counts from all 2,005 polling stations following the country's parliamentary elections.

She explained that, based on the results summarized by the Central  Electoral Commission (CEC), as well as various calculations and  formulas applied to the distribution of mandates for national  minorities and the accounting for dispersed votes, the distribution  of mandates in parliament looks as follows: 61 mandates go to the  Civil Contract party, 28 to the Strong Armenia bloc, 11 to the  Armenia bloc, and 5 to the Prosperous Armenia party.

"Under these circumstances, the Civil Contract party is forming the  government, but it lacks just two votes to achieve a 3/5 majority in  parliament and nine mandates to achieve a 2/3 majority," Hovhannisyan  noted.

At the same time, she urged opposition representatives not to rush to  hold press conferences to justify their mandates, and not to rush to  declare that the government lacks a certain number of votes. "We all  remember similar statements made after previous elections, and we  also remember who supported the Civil Contract party and how during  various subsequent votes. Therefore, as a friendly piece of advice:  if there's anything worth focusing on right now, it's the strength of  your lists entering parliament and the political reliability of the  deputies who end up there. Because the issue isn't just about today's  distribution of mandates; it's also about the extent to which those  same mandates and votes will retain their political affiliation and  position tomorrow," the former minister concluded.

As a reminder, parliamentary elections were held in Armenia on June  7, 2026. According to preliminary data from the Central Election  Commission of Armenia, based on the vote count from all 2,005 polling  stations, Nikol Pashinyan's ruling Civil Contract party received  49.81% or 727,160 votes, Samvel Karapetyan's Strong Armenia bloc  received 23.29% or 340,062 votes, second president Robert Kocharyan's  Armenia bloc received 9.94% or 145,097 votes, and businessman Gagik  Tsarukyan's Prosperous Armenia party received 4% or 58,368 votes. The  remaining candidates' results fell below the required threshold of 4%  for parties and 8-10% for blocs. Voter turnout was 58.97%. A total of  1,476,597 citizens voted in the elections nationwide, out of  approximately 2,505,228 eligible voters. It should be noted that on  election day, observers and journalists reported numerous violations  by the ruling party during the voting process from early morning.

Pashinyan's party thus has the opportunity to single-handedly form  the country's government by securing a majority of seats in the  Armenian parliament. This was something he solemnly announced late at  night, when data from only about 10% of polling stations had been  processed.