Polls open in Armenia snap parliamentary election

The elections were called by incumbent PM following protests over the country’s defeat in a war with Azerbaijan last year.

Polls opened in Armenia on Sunday for snap parliamentary election called by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan amid growing anger after the defeat in the war against Azerbaijan. Pashinyan, who has lost much of his appeal after a military defeat last year to arch-foe Azerbaijan, is hoping to renew his mandate but is in a tight race with former president Robert Kocharyan. His critics accuse him of ceding swathes of territory in the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh to Azerbaijan in a truce agreement that ended last year’s fighting and of failing to deliver on reform promises.