Nikol Pashinyan has recently been elected as the Prime Minister of which country ?

• Armenia’s acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has won the country’s parliamentary elections 2021, with 54 percent of the vote, held on June 20, 2021.
• Pashinyan, who is the leader of the Civil Contract party, first came to power in 2018, following the country’s first free and fair election.
• However, on 25 April 2021, Pashinyan announced his formal resignation, due to outbreak of violence between Armenia and its neighbor Azerbaijan, but he also declared that he would remain as acting prime minister until 2021 elections are held.

Armenia

• Capital - Yerevan; 
• Currency - Armenian dram

By: Rohit Middha