Civil Contract holds 64 of 105 seats in the new chamber, against 29 for the Strong Armenia alliance and 12 for the Armenia alliance. The first session carried the president’s address and the oaths; the government’s resignation followed automatically under Article 149 of the constitution, and the reappointment decree followed the resignation the same day.
The procedure now runs on deadlines: five days for Pashinyan to submit his ministers, 15 for the cabinet to be formed, 20 for a programme and seven for parliament to approve it.
The names will say whether anything has changed beyond the calendar.
The reappointed prime minister is the one who called the Eurasian Economic Union “de facto paralyzed” at his 30 July briefing and promised to raise the paralysis at the union’s next intergovernmental council. Moscow’s answer so far has come through a ladder of produce bans that reached dairy on 27 July, and four foreign-intelligence statements in one day on the cost of leaving. A date for that council circulates in Russian-side relays; no Armenian primary source has carried one.