2020 Nagorno-Karabakh Elections

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Voting takes place in Nagorno Karabakh. Photo: Tatul Hakobyan/Civilnet.

Arayik Harutyunyan wins landslide victory in Nagorno-Karabakh presidential election

by OC Media

•5 min read

Former Prime Minister Arayik Harutyunyan has won a landslide victory in the second round of Nagorno-Karabakh’s presidential elections, winning 88% of the vote. Tuesday’s vote saw Harutyunyan face Foreign Minister Masis Mayilyan, who came second during the first round with 26.4% of the vote. On 5 April, Mayilyan urged voters not to take part in the elections to avoid the spread of the coronavirus. He himself did not take part in Tuesday’s vote. Harutyunyan fell just short of the requir

2020 Nagorno-Karabakh Elections

Nagorno-Karabakh elections yield inconclusive results

by OC Media

•6 min read

Elections held in Nagorno-Karabakh yesterday have yielded inconclusive results, with no party gaining a majority in parliament and the presidential elections set to go to a second round. The elections were the first combined presidential and parliamentary elections in Nagorno-Karabakh, following a referendum in 2017 to change the constitution. Former Prime Minister Arayik Harutyunyan of the Free Motherland Party fell just short of the required 50% of votes to win the presidency out

A campaign poster for Masis Mayilyan (left), with his slogan ‘Together we can’, and Arayik Harutyunyan (centre) with the slogan ‘Towards a prosperous future’. Photo: Mariam Sargsyan/OC Media.

2020 Nagorno-Karabakh Elections

Nagorno-Karabakh prepares for unprecedented elections

by Volodymyr Soboliev

•3 min read

Nagorno-Karabakh is getting ready for presidential and parliamentary elections to be held in two weeks time. Observers say the polls, the first major elections since Armenia’s ‘Velvet Revolution’ in 2018, will be unprecedented in their competitiveness. On 31 March, for the first time ever in Nagorno-Karabakh, parliamentary and presidential elections will be held on the same day — a result of the new constitution adopted in 2017. A representative of the Agency of the State Register of Legal E

2020 Nagorno-Karabakh Elections

Opinion | Competitive politics is returning to Nagorno-Karabakh

by Tigran Grigoryan

•6 min read

The Velvet Revolution has shaken up politics in Nagorno-Karabakh, and the 2020 elections may spell an end for the republic’s old regime. Since the declaration of its independence in 1991, Nagorno-Karabakh has walked a long and bumpy political road. In the 1990s, the military establishment, which played a crucial role in the war of independence, held the real power in the country and practically controlled the entire decision-making process. The political system of the republic was poo