Politics

During the last week it became clear that the negotiations of the oppositional parties regarding formation of an alliance failed. As a result about a dozen of oppositional parties will separately participate in elections. 1 or 2 days after the failure on March the chairman of the New Times Party, Aram Karapetyan announced that there …

A top army general who leads the largest association of Armenian veterans of the Nagorno-Karabakh war predicted on Monday that the upcoming parliamentary elections will be deeply flawed. Lieutenant-General Manvel Grigoryan, chairman of the influential Yerkrapah Union, saw a “100 percent” chance of large-scale vote rigging as he answered questions from the “Liberty” radio. “There …

There is only one out of the 28 political parties registered at the Central Electoral Committee to participate in the proportional electoral system elections that is unknown and that is the National United Liberal Party (NULP). It turned out that “168 Hours” could not have found out anything about this party, say last week, because …

One of the big businessmen of Armenia told “168 Hours” during an interview that in his opinion, election year 2007 will have a negative influence on Armenian economy. The reason for this was the following: Armenians are going to pay more attention to politics than economy. Generally, it is proven that elections have a bad …

“What were the accomplishments and mishaps of the third National Assembly and what are your expectations for the fourth parliament? “168 Hours” asked this question to a group of National Assembly deputies. Ruben Hovsepyan (National Assembly Deputy, Armenian Revolutionary Federation faction): “Many laws of great significance for Armenia’s development were formulated and approved during the …

The second meeting of the “Alternative” NGO/political initiative took place on Friday at the square near the Matenadaran. Based on sources, there were 1000-1200 people participating in the meeting, including representatives of the Armenian National Movement, “Republic”, the National Democratic Alliance and other parties. As during the previous meeting, all television networks had once again …

Head of the National Assembly Committee on Science, Education, Culture and Youth Issues Hranush Hakobyan considers herself as a “long-living and unique female non-partisan deputy”, however she is going to participate in the proportional electoral system in this year’s parliamentary elections. Her name is in the Republican Party list. According to Hakobyan, Armenia’s parliament is …

Yesterday the ARF (Dashnakcutyun) and “Dashink” parties did not publish their proportional lists and promised to do it today, i.e. just before the deadline. They don’t inform any details about their decision. However, we have found it out that NA deputy Hmayak Hovhannisyan will be included in the proportional lists of “Dashink” party and will …

Yesterday ANM board chair Ararat Zurabyan said that their party was going to take part in the elections alone. They are going to publish their proportional lists today after their board meeting. They say there will not be any surprises in their lists. Mr. Zurabyan says that he is sorry that the opposition has failed …

The board of “Honorable Future” party has made a decision not to participate in the parliamentary elections of May 12. However, they say they are ready to take active part in the political processes in Armenia in the future. The chair of the party, RA former prime minister Armen Darbinyan refused to give any explanations …