RULLING COALITION TO DISCUSS ISSUES OF FORMATION OF NEW ELECTORAL
COMMISSIONS SOON
YEREVAN, JUNE 21, NOYAN TAPAN. The electoral map and mechanisms of the
formation of electoral commissions will be discussed at the coming
sittings of the rulling coalition. Levon Mkrchian, the head of the NA
ARF faction informed the Noyan Tapan correspondent about
this. Mentioning that concrete candidates should be presented by the
parties in order to be involved in the electoral commissions, he
attached importance to reaching an intracoalition agreement in this
issue. To recap, the amended variant of the Electoral Code will come
into force starting July 1. Taking into account, that elections of
local self-governance bodies are expected in Armenia in the autumn,
the formation of the electoral commissions should be carried out in a
short time. Levon Mkrchian disproved the supposition that in a number
of communities, holding elections of local sel-governance bodies by
the Electoral Code having acted before created a discriminative
situation for different communities. He mentioned that elections of
local bodies are not held at the same time, and amendments should be
since some moment. Besides, according to the head of the ARF faction,
elections were already held only in 2-3 communities of Yerevan, and
“the number is not such to have qualitative significance.” Levon
Mkrchian mentioned that, among the similar documents having been
presented by Armenia before, the amended Electoral Code was upmost
appriciated by international experts. According to him, “the Electoral
Code is a rather balanced document and gives an opportunity both to
political minority and to majority to be completely secured by the
law.” He expressed a hope that this stage is too important for
Armenia, and they must be able to hold just and democratic
elections. “The head of the ARF faction expresses confidence that the
law gives that opportunity. He also mentioned that involvement of
representatives of the judicial bodies in electoral commissions has a
wide usage in the international practice. According to Mkrtchian, it
will also support the formation of the judicial system. If there is no
great result during the first years that system must prove its value
gradually,” the head of the ARF faction is sure.