# National Assembly elects Nikol Pashinyan prime minister after the Velvet Revolution

Date: 2018

## The fact

On 8 May 2018 Armenia’s [National Assembly](/organizations/national-assembly) elected [Nikol Pashinyan](/people/nikol-pashinyan) prime minister by 59 votes to 42 after weeks of protest forced Serzh Sargsyan to step down.

## Context

Serzh Sargsyan is an unresolved person candidate. This run does not mint a page for him. A peaceful transfer is not a unique 2018 GDP print.

Sargsyan resignation late April; 8 May appointment; later December snap. Store 8 May as the opening certificate. Keep National Assembly elects Nikol Pashinyan prime minister after the Velvet Revolution on 2018-05-08 separate from neighbouring Velvet, 10 November 2020, September 2023 flight, Washington TRIPP, and 2026-certificate instruments.

The prime minister of Armenia is accountable to the National Assembly. He can sign a trilateral statement and receive a mass flight. He does not command Azerbaijani units, does not police Khankendi, and a lost war is not converted here into a unique personal homicide conviction.

## Evidence and sources

National Assembly of Armenia carries the official instrument or communique. BBC News records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

## What is established and what is not

Established: The National Assembly elected Pashinyan prime minister on 8 May 2018, 59–42, independently recorded.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

The streets were the weather. Sargsyan stepped down. This run does not mint Sargsyan.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies National Assembly elects Nikol Pashinyan prime minister after the Velvet Revolution, not a later speech about National Assembly elects Nikol Pashinyan prime minister after the Velvet Revolution.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. National Assembly elects Nikol Pashinyan prime minister after the Velvet Revolution on 2018-05-08 is not a licence to treat every later National Assembly of Armenia communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average National Assembly elects Nikol Pashinyan prime minister after the Velvet Revolution into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to Parliament elected him. The streets were the weather. Sargsyan stepped down. This run does not mint Sargsyan. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Nikol Pashinyan: https://factrail.ai/people/nikol-pashinyan

## Drivers

- Capacity for Peaceful Transfer of Power: https://factrail.ai/drivers/capacity-for-peaceful-transfer-of-power

## Sources

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-44037727
- https://www.parliament.am/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/am-pashinyan-pm-2018