YEREVAN. – Armenia’s third president Serzh Sargsyan cast his ballot in early parliamentary elections.

Machine did not recognize his fingerprints, and it took some time, but finally everything was fine. Sargsyan refused to answer reporter’s questions.

Armenia is holding the first ever snap parliamentary elections in its history. Two blocs and nine parties are running in the elections. Among them are “My Step” bloc, “We” bloc, the Republican Party of Armenia, Prosperous Armenia party, ARF Dashnaktsutyun, Orinats Yerkir, Bright Armenia,  Sasna Tsrer party, Christian-Democratic Party, Citizens’ Decision party and National Progress party.

There is an election threshold of 5% for parties and 7% for multi-party alliances.