MOSCOW (Reuters) – Armenia’s parliament failed to elect a prime minister for the second time on Monday, triggering its own dissolution in a final step towards an early election likely in June, Russia’s TASS news agency reported citing a livestream from parliament.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, who was swept to power in pro-democracy protests in 2018, resigned last month to run in an early election after facing criticism over his handling of last year’s conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh.
(Reporting by Polina Ivanova; Writing by Olzhas Auyezov; Editing by Hugh Lawson)
