In what amounted to a vote of confidence, the Armenian parliament approved on Thursday a five-year program of government actions submitted by Prime Minister Tigran Sarkisian's new cabinet and strongly criticized by the opposition.
The National Assembly passed it by 75 votes to 47, with one abstention, after two days of heated debates that exposed new battle lines drawn on the Armenian political scene by the May 6 parliamentary elections.
The document was backed by all deputies representing the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) and its junior coalition partner, the Orinats Yerkir Party. The four other parliament factions voted against it. The largest of them represents the Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK), which was part of the ruling coalition until this month.
Armenian News
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