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  • Around 20,000 supporters of Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on Thursday packed a central square in the capital Yerevan as he staged the last campaign rally ahead of snap polls. Holding flags and chanting slogans, supporters rallied in the capital's Republic Square ahead of early parliamentary polls on Sunday, according to AFP correspondents at the scene. "We do no not want the old regime to return," one supporter, Mikael Kirakosyan, told AFP. The 60-year-old engineer-turned-businessman said that "anarchy and corruption" had reigned in the small South Caucasus country before Pashinyan came to power in 2018. Karine Harutyunyan, a 53-year-old homemaker, said Pashinyan was an "honest" man. "We trust him, we love him, we respect him!" Pashinyan, a former newspaper editor, swept to power in 2018, spearheading peaceful protests against corrupt elites who ruled after the collapse of the Soviet Union. But many Armenians now feel betrayed, saying he led the country into a disastrous war with arch-enemy Azerbaijan last year. The war, which claimed more than 6,000 lives and saw Armenia cede swathes of territory to Azerbaijan, has sparked a political crisis. Pashinyan has called the early polls to quell protests and renew his mandate. Polls show that Pashinyan's Civil Contract Party is neck-in-neck with ex-president Robert Kocharyan's electoral bloc. No one is expected to get more than 30 percent of the vote. Pashinyan says he hopes his party can secure 60 percent of the vote, an estimate some pollsters call "fantastical". During an aggressive campaign, he urged voters to give him a "steel mandate" and brandished a hammer. Fighting erupted between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces in September, reigniting the decades-old territorial dispute over Azerbaijan's breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh. Pashinyan last November signed a Russian-brokered ceasefire agreement. mkh-ant-as/
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  • 20,000 turn out for Armenia PM before snap poll: AFP
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