France, June 7 -- Pashinyan, who was propelled to power in a 2018 street revolution, is running under the slogan of "peace" - pointing to the prospect of finally resolving Armenia's more than three-decade conflict with Azerbaijan and normalising relations with Turkey.

Joshua Kucera, senior South Caucasus analyst at the International Crisis Group, summarises the prime minister's pitch thus: "We've brought peace and this is what I will do."

Pashinyan's rivals accuse him of mishandling foreign affairs, making too many concessions to Baku and Ankara, and wrecking ties with Moscow.

But against him, the field is weak and divided. "The opposition largely has fragmented," Richard Giragossian, director of the Regional Studies Center, a think ta...