{"id":271624,"date":"2026-06-08T11:10:04","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T07:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=271624"},"modified":"2026-06-08T15:25:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T11:25:51","slug":"preliminary-election-results-point-more-to-pashinyans-defeat-than-victory-kosachev-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/271624\/","title":{"rendered":"Preliminary election results point more to Pashinyan\u2019s defeat than victory, Kosachev says"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>According to Konstantin Kosachev, Deputy Speaker of the Federation Council of Russia, the preliminary results of the elections in Armenia indicate more of a defeat for Nikol Pashinyan&rsquo;s party than a victory, <a href=\"https:\/\/ria.ru\/20260608\/kosachev-2097625792.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RIA Novosti<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling Civil Contract party, led by Pashinyan, failed to secure 50% of the vote in the country&rsquo;s parliamentary elections.<\/p>\n<p>The senator also noted that forming a single-party majority government in Armenia requires at least 52% of the vote.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Konstantin Kosachev, Deputy Speaker of the Federation Council of Russia, the preliminary results of the elections in Armenia indicate more of a defeat for Nikol Pashinyan&rsquo;s party than a victory, RIA Novosti reports. The ruling Civil Contract party, led by Pashinyan, failed to secure 50% of the vote in the country&rsquo;s parliamentary elections. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":271416,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[182,2,35,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2026-elections-en","category-news","category-politics","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":271625,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271624\/revisions\/271625"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}