Nagornyy Karabakh Republic [NKR] starts registration of candidates for
parliament polls

Arminfo, Yerevan
10 May 05

STEPANAKERT

Registration of candidates for deputy of the National Assembly of the
Nagornyy Karabakh Republic [NKR] started today.

Unlike the previous ones, the forthcoming elections [due in June] will
be conducted both under the first-past-the-post and proportional
representation systems (a third of the 33-seat Karabakh parliament
will be elected from party lists), our correspondent reports.

A total of 127 candidates have been nominated for the 22 seats under
the first-past-the-post system, i.e. an average of six candidates for
one seat, the NKR Central Electoral Commission [CEC] reported. Out of
the 127 candidates, 57 were nominated by parties, and 70 on civil
initiative.

[Passage omitted: minor details]

The Armenian Revolutionary Federation – Dashnaktsutyun [ARFD] and
Movement-88 are running in the elections in one bloc. Only the
Armenakan Party will not run in the elections under the proportional
representation system, it has put forward a candidate under the
first-past-the-post system.

The election campaign will start on 17 May, and the elections will be
conducted on 19 June.