New Delhi, June 14 -- YEREVAN - Three polling stations stood between Gagik Tsarukyan and a seat in the Armenian parliament. On Sunday, Armenia's Central Election Commission ruled that those stations no longer counted - and with them went his party's last arithmetic hope.

the party will not enter the new convocation of the National Assembly.

The finality of Sunday's announcement ends a week of procedural drama that exposed a structural vulnerability inside Armenia's post-election certification process. After preliminary results placed Prosperous Armenia at 3.996% - a figure so close to the threshold that a single contested precinct could tip it - the CEC annulled the results of three polling stations citing procedural violations recorded...