Voting ends in Armenia, polling stations close

Snap parliamentary elections ended in Armenia today. Polling stations closed at 8 p.m.

As of 5 p.m., the voter turnout in the National Assembly election in Armenia is 39.54% of eligible voters or 1, 025,002 people, Central Electoral Commission (CEC) secretary Armen Smbatyan said, presenting the voter turnout.

The number of registered voters makes 2,592,479.

Eleven political forces – 9 parties and 2 blocs – are participating in the elections.

The participating forces are – My Step and We blocs, National Progress, Prosperous Armenia, Bright Armenia, Armenian Revolutionary Federation-Dashnaktsutyun, Republican, Sasna Tsrer, Citizen’s Decision social-democratic, Christian People’s Revival and Orinats Yerkir [Rule of Law] parties.

Observers from 22 local NGOs as well as international organizations, including the European Parliament, OSCE/ODIHR, PACE, CIS observing mission, CIS Inter-Parliamentary Assembly, OSCE PA, European Parliament, SILBA (Initiative for Dialogue and Democracy) and ENEMO (European Network of Election Monitoring Organizations) will monitor the elections.

The election threshold is set 5% for parties and 7% for blocs.