Five political parties and an opposition bloc have passed the election threshold to make in into Armenia’s parliament, according to preliminary vote results published by the Central Election Commission on Monday, RIA Novosti reports.
With more than 90 percent of the ballots counted, President Serzh Sargsyan’s Republican Party gained 44.23 percent of the vote in Sunday's elections, followed by the Prosperous Armenia party, its partner in the governing coalition, with 30.31 percent.
The three parties that managed to pass the 5-percent threshold to qualify for seats in the 131-strong parliament are the Heritage party, the Armenian Revolutionary Federation, and the centrist Orinats Erkir (Rule of Law) party, which gained 5.73 percent, 5.66 percent, and 5.43 percent, respectively.
The main opposition force, the Armenian National Congress led by ex-President Levon Ter-Petrosyan, narrowly passed the 7-percent threshold set for political blocs with 7.01 percent of the vote.
The other three parties participating in the elections – the Communists, the Democrats and the United Armenians party, gained less than 1 percent of the vote each.
