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Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s Civil Contract Party has won local government elections in most of 36 communities in Sunday’s polls.

According to the preliminary data of the Central Election Commission, the Civil Contract has won in 24 communities, but has lost the polls in several major towns.

In Masis, for example, the election has been won by a bloc headed by incumbent mayor David Hambardzumian, who is a defendant in a criminal case.

The election in the town of Abovyan has been won by a former MP Eduard Babayan from Prosperous Armenia party. Babayan was sentenced to 3 ½ years in prison in 2019, but was released under an amnesty.