Politics

During the question and answer session at the National Assembly the representatives of the Heritage faction asked questions to the Prime Minister of RA Serzh Sargsyan about the inspections that are being conducted in Sil Holding belonging to Sukiasyan’s family. Member of Heritage faction Anahit Bakshyan reminded Serzh Sargsyan about his own statement that the …

Yesterday the National Assembly elected a senior representative of the pro-presidential Prosperous Armenia Party Arevik Petrosyan as its new deputy speaker. Until now she headed the parliament committee on human rights and had previously served as deputy minister of justice. Three candidates were nominated for this post. One of them later refused the candidature. It’s …

Yesterday Levon Ter-Petrosyan and the chairman of the Republic Party, Aram Sargsyan made a petition to the citizens of Armenia, according to which they convinced the people not to be scared of the pressure by the government and participate in the rally on November 16. To the question of our reporter why the PPA chair …

The Angus Reid Global Monitor magazine has published its social polls about the upcoming presidential elections in Armenia. The polls were conducted by the Armenian Sociological Association among 1000 people. Who would you vote for in the presidential elections? According to the polling results the Armenian prime minister Serzh Sargsyan could become the country’s next …

The RPA leadership unanimously backed Prime Minister Serzh Sarsgyan’s candidacy in the upcoming presidential elections at a party congress held on Saturday. When answering to the question of our reporter, “Mr. Prime Minister, rumors came that some may defect from the government camp to the opposition?” Sargsyan said, “We are absolute majority, we do not …

The 11th Congress of the Republican party, which was held on November 10 in the Dinamo Sports Complex after Vazgen Sargsyan, was an exclusive event because the leader of the Ararat wing of the Armenian Church Arch-bishop Navasard Ktchoyan, also made a speech. He first prayed and then from the podium announced that in the …

After the ARP summit the leader of ARP party and candidate for president Serzh Sargsyan answered to a question whether his tactics would change before the presidential elections and said, “No, I have said for several times and I am saying one more time that our purpose is explaining the meaning of our program to …

PPA leader Stepan Demirchyan has said that Levon Ter-Petrosyan will be nominated by civic initiative and that the reason the authorities are trying to exclude the provision on nomination through civic initiative from the electoral code is to prevent Ter-Petrosyan from nomination. Based on the PPA chair’s announcements we may assume that during the rally …

The day of the presidential elections is February 19, 2008, which is a nonworking day. Yesterday the head of the Central Electoral Commission, Garegin Azaryan announced the official Election Day. “According to the second provision of Article 88 of the RA Electoral Code I am authorized to inform that the presidential elections of the republic, …

According to our information, several potential candidates for presidency are going to order public polls for inner use. According to our sources, many of them are concerned of the recent public polls carried out by British “ComRes” organization, the possibility of which incorrectness, according to the director of that organization, is equal to 2,2%. To …