Pro-government party wins majority in Karabakh parliament –
preliminary results

Mediamax news agency
20 Jun 05

YEREVAN

The Central Electoral Commission (CEC) of the Nagornyy Karabakh
Republic [NKR] has summed up preliminary results of the parliamentary
elections under the proportional representation system.

MPs elected from party lists will gain a third of the 33 seats in the
NKR National Assembly. The remaining 22 mandates will go to those
elected under the first-past-the-post system.

According to the preliminary results of the NKR CEC, the
pro-government Democratic Party of Artsakh will get five seats in the
new parliament (22,393 votes), the bloc of Dashnaktsutyun and
Movement-88 (14,534 votes) and the Free Motherland Movement (15,931
votes) will get three seats each.

The list of the bloc of Dashnaktsutyun and Movement-88 is led by
former Deputy Defence Minister Gen Vitaliy Balasanyan, Mayor of
Stepanakert Eduard Agabekyan and former NKR Minister of
Education and Culture Armen Sarkisyan.

According to the preliminary data, 73.6 per cent of voters took part
in the 19 June parliamentary elections in the NKR.