Politics

Yesterday we witnessed another public conflict between the ANC and LS. Yesterday the president of the Legal State party Artur Baghdasaryan announced that in 2008 cooperation between the LS and Levon Ter-Petrosyan was impossible because Ter-Petrosyan had insulted him and called a traitor of the nation. In answer to this statement Ter-Petrosyan’s spokesman Arman Musinyan …

Eight political powers that are members of the ANC have published an announcement condemning the decision to close down the ANC’s office in Arabkir community as they believe it is a politically motivated order. The announcement of the ABC writes the following: “On February 12 based on the decision of the administrative court it was …

Yesterday a standing committee of the Armenian parliament held hearings on a major voting reform on transitioning to 100% proportional voting, which the country’s leading opposition forces Heritage and ARF say would make the upcoming parliamentary elections more democratic. Let us remember that the theme of transitioning to 100% proportional electoral system has been on …

The results and process of the municipal elections in Hrazdan show how the authorities are getting prepared for the upcoming parliamentary elections, and in case of success even the presidential elections 2013. Former MP and political prisoner Sasun Mikayelyan, who is a member of the ANC now, has a very high reputation in that region …

The local government elections in 39 communities of Armenia on February 12 seem to have passed in quiet and normal environment. There were no shootings, fighting, noisy violations and complaints as usually it happens after elections in Armenia. All eyes were on the mayoral elections of Hrazdan, where the main competitors were RPA member Aram …

The regular session of the ruling coalition took place recently. It’s not known when and where exactly the session took place because based on the released statement no details are provided. During this session the coalition adopted a statement. “The governing coalition reportedly pledged not to undermine each other’s political parties in the run-up to …

The situation in the streets of Yerevan was very shameful during the hard snow of the recent days. This situation can be described as lack of authority. After hard snow of two days the traffic was awful and it was almost impossible to walk in the streets; even the central streets were in such situation. …

“The Prime Minister says that we are going to elections with open arms. What are these open arms? He says he has paid the pensions. But you were supposed to double the pensions. You haven’t even paid the pensions because you have borrowed money to pay the pensions. You have turned the debt from 1,5 …

“Tigran Sargsyan is making the economy something that is controlled by financial oligarchs from being something that used to be controlled by importing oligarchs. The financial money is a balloon. They adopted a law on compulsory use of cash machines, did it help to increase the tax inflow? According to last year’s information of the …

Yesterday during the press-conference the chairman of ARF fraction Vahan Hovhannisyan made several comments on the recent well-known incident as regards to rigging the votes at the Parliament. “If today the RPA deputies vote instead of their colleagues, tomorrow they will rig the parliamentary elections,” said Hovhannisyan and added that the ruling party is not …