Armenian opposition parties, which have demanded Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s resignation, demanded that he step down before the vote.

Armenian opposition parties, which have demanded Pashinyan’s resignation since November over his handling of the Nagorno-Karabakh war with Azerbaijan, demanded that he step down before the election.

In February, the chief of the General Staff of the Armenian Armed Forces Onik Gasparyan and more than 40 other high-ranking military officers issued a statement calling for Pashinyan's resignation, which Pashinyan denounced as an attempted military coup.

Pashinyan dismissed the army's chief of staff and accused him of plotting a coup, but the Armenian President Armen Sarkissian blocked the dismissal.