Pashinyan wins Armenian election on pro-West, ‘Real Armenia’ peace agenda

Nikol Pashinyan won Armenia’s parliamentary election with 49.8% of the vote, advancing his pro-Western 'Real Armenia' peace agenda. His Civil Contract party fell short of a supermajority, complicating constitutional reforms. The election occurred amid geopolitical tensions with Azerbaijan and Turkey, following Azerbaijan’s 2023 takeover of Nagorno-Karabakh. A U.S.-brokered peace deal in 2025 requires Armenia to remove constitutional claims to Nagorno-Karabakh, a move now delayed without a supermajority.