Nikol Pashinyan has become a candidate for the post of Prime Minister of Armenia.

The current head of the Armenian government has become a candidate for prime minister following an internal vote within the ruling Civil Contract party.

As reported by the Caucasian Knot, snap parliamentary elections were held in Armenia in June 2021. Nikol Pashinyan's Civil Contract party received 53.92% of the vote. On August 2, 2021, Pashinyan was again appointed Prime Minister of Armenia.

The ruling Civil Contract party officially nominated Nikol Pashinyan as its candidate for prime minister following an internal vote, Novosti-Armenia reported today.

"The results of the two rounds of the Civil Contract party's internal elections have been announced. No appeals against the voting results were received within the established deadline. [...] I express my gratitude to all my friends from the party for the trust they have placed in me [...] and for the honor of being a candidate for Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia," Pashinyan wrote today on his Telegram channel.

As a reminder, in September 2025, the opposition held hearings in the Armenian parliament on the issue of no confidence in Nikol Pashinyan. Thirty-four of the 36 signatures required to launch the process were collected in support of the initiative.

On June 7, the next parliamentary elections to the National Assembly of the ninth convocation will be held in Armenia. These elections will effectively serve as a referendum on the future of Nikol Pashinyan's rule and the country's foreign policy course. At stake is the retention of power by the current team or its transfer to the opposition, which promises to reconsider the key decisions of recent years, according to a report from the "Caucasian Knot" "2026 Elections to the National Assembly (Parliament) of Armenia".