Overview
- On Sunday, August 2, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan formally submitted the cabinet's resignation as required on the opening day of the new National Assembly.
- President Vaagn Khachaturyan accepted the resignation the same day and published a decree reappointing Pashinyan as prime minister.
- Pashinyan's Civil Contract won the June 7 parliamentary vote with about 49.7 percent and used its majority to nominate him for another term.
- Until ministers for the new cabinet are approved and sworn in, members of the outgoing government will continue to carry out their duties in a caretaker capacity.
- The move keeps the current leadership and policy course in place while the parliamentary majority and party negotiate the composition of the incoming cabinet.