YEREVAN, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) -- Armenia's My Step Alliance has won a landslide victory in the country's parliamentary elections, according to preliminary data released on Monday.
The statistics from the Central Election Commission (CEC) of Armenia showed that the party, led by caretaker Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, won 70.43 percent of the votes.
Speaking to local media and supporters at the party's headquarters in Yerevan early in the morning, Pashinyan vowed to further push ahead his revolution until "all the goals" are attained.
One priority is to make Armenia economically developed, he added.
Armenia kicked off snap elections on Sunday to pick a new parliament for the next five years, after a second failed attempt by the National Assembly in November to elect a prime minister.
Altogether nine political parties and two alliances were running for the National Assembly, among which millionaire Gagik Tsarukyan's Prosperous Armenia party received 8.27 percent of the votes and the former ruling Republican Party led by former Defense Minister Vigen Sargsyan garnered 4.70 percent, the CEC said.
The election commission said 2,010 polling stations were opened across the country and the turnout was 48.63 percent.
The parliament can have at least 101 MPs and a final number of seats will be defined following the election results.
