Nagorno-Karabakh's three main pro-government parties lost some ground to two opposition groups but still retained their comfortable majority in the local legislature in weekend elections strongly condemned by Azerbaijan.
According to Karabakh's Central Election Commission (CEC), just over 70 percent of the territory's 100,000 or so eligible voters cast ballots in Sunday's elections.
The largest pro-government force, Free Fatherland, was their biggest winner, with preliminary official results giving it over 47 percent of votes counted under the system of proportional representation.
This means that the party will get around half of the 22 of the 33 Karabakh parliament seats contested on the party-list basis. Free Fatherland, which is led by Arayik Harutiunian, the Karabakh prime minister, also won 4 of the 11 seats distributed in single-mandate individual constituencies.
Armenian News
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