Pashinyan was elected Prime Minister of Armenia

The National Assembly of Armenia elected the leader of the velvet revolution Nikola Pashinyan Prime Minister of the country. It is reported by Radio Azatutyun.

59 deputies voted for Pashinyan, 42 against the candidate, it was necessary to get at least 53 votes in a 105 -seater parliament.

In support of the leader of the revolution, the deputies of all three opposition factions - the Elk faction (Exodus), as well as the factions of the Tsarukyan Bloc and the Armenian Revolutionary Federation of Dashnaktsutyun - and part of the members of the Republican Party of Armenia, which have the majority in the current composition of the National Assembly, acted as deputies.

The meeting of the parliament was broadcast live on the Republic Square, where demonstrators gathered - participants in the velvet revolution. They met Pashinyan by the prime minister by glee.

Pashinyan was elected prime minister on the second attempt. At a meeting on May 1, the Republicans failed his candidacy . In response to this on May 2, a nationwide strike was launched. On the same day, the Republicans promised to change their position, and protests were suspended until the morning of the 8th.

Unlike a long meeting on May 1, the current one took only about an hour and a half .

Now the Provisional Government, which will form a new prime minister, will have to hold extraordinary parliamentary elections as soon as possible.

On the eve of Pashinyan, he said that the oligarchs would not be part of his office. He also assured that after his election in the country there will be no monopoly on one or another economic activity. “The rules of the game should be clear to everyone,” the politician noted. “The rules of the game are legality. We have already said, and I would like to emphasize that there will be no vendett, I will say about this in my speech (in parliament on May 8. - Ed.). Political and economic persecution in the Republic of Armenia is closed, and our task is to create an atmosphere of solidarity.”

Pashinyan is 42 years old, he was born in the city of Izhevan in the northeast of Armenia, the center of the current Tavush region. He studied at a journalist at the University of Yerevan; Excluded for participation in political activities. He began to work in the press as a student. In 1998, he founded the newspaper Oragyir and became its editor-in-chief. The following year he became a defendant in the criminal case of slander. Was condemned by a year conditionally; The Court closed the newspaper Oragyr.

Already in the summer of 1999, Pashinyan founded and headed the new newspaper - Aykakan Zhamanak, which became one of the most influential editions of Armenia. Was the chief of the newspaper until 2008; Then this position was taken by his wife Anna Akopyan.

On November 22, 2004, an attempt was made on Pashinyan. The journalist’s car, parked at the editorial office of Aykakan Zhamanak, exploded just at the time when he usually left work. Pashinyan was saved only by the fact that on this day he lingered to the editorial office. The journalist called the businessman Gagik Tsarukayan. Now Tsarukyan is heading a block of his name in the National Assembly, who supported Pashinyan’s candidacy for the post of prime minister.

In 2007, Pashinyan nominated the National Assembly at the head of the Bloc "Impichment", who advocated the resignation of President Robert Kocharyan and Prime Minister Serzh Sargsyan. The block scored slightly more than 1 percent of the vote; Pashinyan called the results of the elections falsified.

In 2008, he was a member of the presidential candidate Levon Ter-Petrosyan (in 1991-1998-the first president of independent Armenia). After Sargsyan was announced the winner of the elections, the supporters of Ter-Petrosyan on March 1-2, 2008 arranged protest shares in Yerevan. The police dispersed the shares; Among the demonstrators were victims .

Pashinyan was put on the wanted list. For more than a year, the politician was hiding; At the same time, by his own admission, he did not go beyond Armenia and spent most of this time in Yerevan. On July 1, 2009, Pashinyan surrendered to the police. In January 2010, he was convicted by the seven-year term on charges of organizing riots. In May 2011, Pashinyan was ahead of schedule in an amnesty for the 20th anniversary of Independence of Armenia.

In 2012, he was elected deputy of the National Assembly from the Bloc "Armenian National Congress". Since 2013, a member of the Civil Treaty Party, since 2016, when the Civil Treaty, together with two other parties, formed the Elk Alliance, the co-chair of this alliance. In 2017, he was elected to the parliament already from the "Christmas tree".

Last year, he also ran for mayor of Yerevan. He took the second place with 21 percent of the vote.

In 2016, during the action of the Sasna Tsrer detachment , which for two weeks captured the police base in Yerevan, the politician repeatedly visited the object for negotiations with the detachment participants.

The Elk faction advocated the exit of Armenia from the Eurasian Economic Union. The relationship of Moscow and Yerevan Pashinyan characterized as the relationship of the speaker and the listener.