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Armenia's parliamentary elections have yielded a landslide victory for Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan's party, securing a majority in the country's parliament.. the win marks a significant shift in Armenia's foreign policy, with Pashinyan's party pledging to draw closer ties to the West, particularly the United States and the European Union.

According to the report, Pashinyan's party won a majority in the nation's parliamentary elections, marking a victory for Donald Trump after Pashinyan first took power in 2018 in the so-called Velvet Revolution.

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The election was held while Karapetyan was under house arrest over charges of conspiring to overthrow the government, charges he and his suppotrers reject as politically motivated. Similar charges were leveled against several other rival candidates ahead of the election, spurring accusations of authoritarianism and corruption against Pashinyan's government .

The people of Armenia voted for peace, regional prosperity, and regional cooperation and I hope this will be met with a positive response from Turkey and Azerbaijan, he remarked at his campaign headquarters.

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Pashinyan campaigned on drawing closer ties to the West, in part through brokering a lasting peace with long-time enemies Azerbaijan and Turkey. The shift is politically controversial due to Armenia's troubled past with the two powers,though the opposition remained too fractured and scarred by association with past corruption to put up a considerable fight.

Pashinyan also repeatedly sought to soothe those fearful of severing ties with Russia, Armenia's historical protector. He vowed that the election wasn't a referendum on choosing between Russia and the West.

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Though Pashinyan won a clear victory, it wasn't a total one.. His party failed to win a supermajority, barring him from amending the constitution to give up Armenia's claims to the Nagorno-Karabakh region, a central demand of Azerbaijan as a precondition for a lasting peace deal.

Pashinyan's commitment to the Washington-brokered peace agreement, written last year, earned him the endorsement of Trump, who hailed the Armenian leader as a great friend and leader making Armenia strong, wealthy, and extremely secure!