Politics

Yesterday it was officially released that the Prosperous Armenia party will record the voting process on May 6 from 8 a.m. till 8 p.m. in all the 1982 precincts of Armenia, that is the ballot counting. This was informed by the campaign office of the PA. The rumors that the PA was going to film …

Prosperous Armenia, Dashnaktsutyun parties and the ANC have decided to apply to the Constitutional Court asking to rule unconstitutional the provision in the Electoral Code, according to which does not allow publishing the lists of participants following elections. These political powers participating in the united headquarter to control the process of elections allege that there …

The Gallup International Association is going to hold exit-poll in 131 polling stations out of the 1982 ones throughout Armenia on the parliamentary election day on May 6. The organization’s representative Milkana Nikolova announced about this decision yesterday. “We hope that people will honestly say who they voted for. Often we are asked whether this …

The Gallup International Association has conducted a survey asking voters which parties they would vote for if the elections were to take place the upcoming Sunday, in answer to which 39,2% of the respondents said that they would give their votes to the RPA. The second place is given to the PA with 29.9% of …

Along with the parliamentary election campaign a group is separated in the society, which does not want to participate in elections and simply will not go to polling stations on May 6. Day by day conversations about this topic are becoming more and more active. Now this is true about larger groups of the society …

Today Serzh Sargsyan received Armenia’s Prosecutor General Aghvan Hovsepyan to discuss public concerns over election bribe."This negative phenomenon questions the legitimacy of each election. The primary task of each democratic and lawful state is to neutralize such undesirable impact and ensure the conduct of free and fair elections," said Serzh Sargsyan. The country’s leader stressed …

“About 2,5% of voters would vote for Armenia’s second president Robert Kocharyan,” says sociologist Aharon Adibekyan. The sociologist says the economic achievements registered during the tenure of office of the second president, as well as his family’s activities left Kocharyan little chance to return to politics. Kocharyan gained more profits from the country’s economic successes …

The situation in Armenia is extraordinary nowadays prior to parliamentary elections due on May 6. Three structures have been formed to ensure control over electoral process: non-parliamentary joint headquarter, parliamentary monitoring team and a team of several parties who have joint RPA representative Davit Harutyunyan’s initiative to ensure civil elections. These three institutions regularly hold …

“There are people who want to discredit Gagik Tsarukyan, the chairman of PA party, because of his pistol,” announced PA leader Gagik Tsarukyan during his campaign visit to Ararat, but he did not bring any details about what he had meant exactly. He said that people were trying to make big troubles from small things …

Today is the 97 anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. This time it coincided with the pre-election campaign. Though political powers announced earlier that on this day they would not conduct any campaign, it is clear that their speeches will indirectly be connected with the upcoming elections. It is natural, because all the political powers are …