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Armenia's parliament takes step to trigger snap election - report

Armenia's parliament failed to elect a prime minister for the second time on Monday, triggering its own dissolution in a final step towards an early election likely in June, Russia's TASS news agency reported citing a livestream from parliament.

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, who was swept to power in pro-democracy protests in 2018, resigned last month to run in an early election after facing criticism over his handling of last year’s conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh.

(Reporting by Polina Ivanova; Writing by Olzhas Auyezov; Editing by Hugh Lawson)

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