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15 May 2012 - 10:25 AMT

Opposition figure meets with UK ambassador

Coordinator of the Armenian National Congress (ANC) opposition bloc Levon Zurabyan met with UK ambassador to Armenia Jonathan James Aves at ANC central office.

According to ANC press service, the May 6 parliamentary elections and the current political situation in Armenia were on the meeting agenda.

Zurabyan briefed the ambassador on the election fraud ANC has fixed, the opposition bloc's appeal to the Constitutional Court, as well as ANC's further moves.

The ruling Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) took a decisive victory at the parliamentary elections on May 6 gaining 44,02% of votes.

The coalition Prosperous Armenia party comes second with 30,12% of votes and the opposition ANC is placed third with 7,08%. The opposition parties Heritage (5,76%) and ARF Dashnaktsutyun (5,67%), as well as the third coalition Orinats Yerkir party (5,51%) also joined the new parliament.

RPA gained absolute majority of 69 seats in the 131-member National Assembly, 40 by proportional and 29 by majority system of voting.

Prosperous Armenia got 37 seats (28 by proportional and 9 by majority systems) and ANC was left with 7.

Dashnaktsutyun and Orinats Yerkir got 6 seats each (5 by proportional and 1 by majority systems), while Heritage got 5.