Politics

– The lists publicized by the police showed that compared to 2008 presidential elections during this race the number of voters has increased by 165,000 and reached approximately 2,5 million. Do you believe these numbers in the case that the migration rates have been speeding up during the past years? – During the hearings organized …

We have been informed that the deputy chairman of Heritage party Ruben Hakobyan has suggested the ANC coordinator Levon Zurabyan to support their candidates nominated under majoritarian system in 1, 4, 6, 9 and 12th precincts. Instead of this, the Heritage would endorse the ANC’s 21 candidates. “Now the ANC is ready to cooperate concerning …

Among other differences the pre-election campaign of 2012 parliamentary elections differ from previous campaigns with one more fact. This time the Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan is also participating. This is perhaps the present of the government to the nation. People, who have been listening to the lectures of Tigran Sargsyan for four years, now can …

During the pre-election period each party is able to degrade its reputation and image without any external mediation. In the case of the ruling coalition parties there was no need for efforts although the RPA has pretty good black jokes for Prosperous Armenia and vice versa. And both of these parties have jokes for the …

In answer to a questions whether the ARF might be a part of the ruling coalition again after the upcoming parliamentary elections the head of the ARF faction Vahan Hovhannisyan said, “We want to increase our participation in the parliament so that there will not be any need for coalitions.” Concerning the RPA’s pre-election lists …

Information has been published that in the 7th precinct of Yerevan, where Samvel Alexanyan has been nominated by the RPA, the chief editor of Haykakan Zhamanak newspaper Nikol Pashinyan and the head of Heritage party Raffi Hovhannisyan will be nominated as well. Yesterday the latter said that they did not know about each other to …

Based on the nominations of the opposition candidates in the single-mandate districts it looks clear that the Armenian opposition will not be united and cooperative with each other during the parliamentary elections. Or, similarly, it won’t be jointly run against the government and for the sake of the opposition victory. In numerous single-mandate districts the …

The chief editor of 168 Hours newspaper has submitted documents to the 4th precinct of Arabkir community of Yerevan to nominate her candidacy in the National Assembly elections under majoritarian system. In the same precinct the competitors are businessman Artak Sargsyan, who is the owner of SAS company and is supported by the RPA, Zaruhi …

“We are concerned about a behavior that has become a tradition, what I mean is that since 2000 there are parties in Armenia that are formally members of the ruling coalition, and till 2003 there were an informal part of the ruling government, but recently in their actions they are trying to do other things, …

– To what extent does the message of the EPP chair Wilfried Martens made during the 13th congress of RPA conform to European and democratic standards? In his message he said, “I am sure that in a few weeks you will win the parliamentary elections.”– I can guess that the EPP chair was expressing his …