Politics

“If we don’t have a preliminary agreement that this memorandum will be signed by the top leaders of political parties we will probably abstain,” yesterday stated the member of the Heritage party Ruben Hakobyan during the discussion of the establishment of the oversight headquarters. Let us remember that a week ago the representatives of the …

The closer elections are, the funnier the situation in the political sector is. Revolutionists are becoming ant-revolutionists, and enemies are becoming friends, even electoral falsifiers are struggling against falsifications… One of the main topics of discussion in the sector of politics is the issue of establishment of a civic headquarter for controlling over elections. The …

The Heritage party will abstain from participating in the activities of the joint public oversight headquarters if the leaders of the four political parties don’t sign the statement of joint oversight. Yesterday during the discussion of the format of this headquarters the member of the Heritage Party Ruben Hakobyan reiterated this stance of the party …

The main economic news of the week were quite controversial as it’s characteristic to this pre-election period. During this period usually lots of things become simple and noticeable. Unfortunately, a few people pay attention this and these developments vanish over time. But these developments prove the quality and productivity of governance. The economic week continued …

Political parties that are going to contest in the upcoming parliamentary elections have already released their pre-election platforms. Along with platforms they also published series of campaign promises which will be fulfilled in the next 5 years, if of course they win the elections. First of all three pre-election platforms of the three major parties …

The commitments and announcements concerning fairness and transparency of the parliamentary elections May 6 demolished on April 8, as soon as the official campaign started. It is not only about the promises to hold fair elections, but also their announcements that these elections would be crucial and fatal for Armenia’s future. This means that the …

“As the authorities failed to fulfill their promises due to the crisis, but was able only to resist the impact of the crisis, it wants trust to continue that job,” said sociologist Aharon Adibekyan commenting on the slogans of political parties. To remind, the slogans of all pro-government political parties are based on the word …

“The elections to take place on May 6 are not only parliamentary elections but election of the government as well,” announced former foreign minister Vartan Oskanyan in his article entitled “Situation anatomy”. Vartan Oskanyan mentions that according to the Constitution the government is formed by majority of the parliament. Accordingly, when voters give their votes …

Following the visit of the Russian FM Sergey Lavrov to Armenia political scientist Richard Giragossian has come to a conclusion that Armenia is gaining more strategic weight. According to Giragossian, Russia is concerned with Armenia’s military and strategic active relations with the West. He believes that the Kremlin will not ignore the military trainings with …

Yesterday the five parliamentary parties, including the United Armenians Party, Communist Party and the Democratic Party participated in the meeting in parliament aimed at the establishment of a parliamentary group adjacent to the parliament in charge of oversight of the implementation of the Electoral Code and the conduct of electoral processes. Let’s remember that several …