MOSCOW—Armenia’s acting prime minister, Nikol Pashinyan, kept power in a parliamentary election that boosted his authority despite being widely blamed for a military defeat last year in the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave, results showed on June 21.
Pashinyan’s Civil Contract party won 53.9 percent of votes cast in the June 20 snap election, according to preliminary results. Former President Robert Kocharyan’s Armenia Alliance trailed with about 21 percent, and questioned the credibility of the result, the Interfax news agency reported.
