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YEREVAN When Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian signed a Russian-brokered cease-fire in November to end the war with Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh, it created a tumultuous postwar crisis that has eroded public confidence in Yerevan s political establishment.
Opinion polls show the approval rating of Pashinian s government has fallen from about 60 percent in September 2020 to around 30 percent today.
Pashinian s allies faced with political upheaval and declining public confidence in politicians are now working to change the country s election laws ahead of snap parliamentary elections expected in June.
The 45-year-old Pashinian s My Step alliance is revamping parts of the Electoral Code that were put in place in 2016 by his predecessors, the Republican Party of Armenia (HHK), two years before the Velvet Revolution swept him into office.