PRESIDENTIAL REP ELECTED ARMENIAN CEC CHAIRMAN

ARKA News Agency, Armenia
July 20 2005

YEREVAN, July 20. /ARKA/. The presidential representative Garegin
Azaryan has been elected Chairman of the newly formed Central Electoral
Commission of Armenia at the CEC’s first meeting by seven to one
abstention. Talking to journalists, Azaryan said that the new CEC has
inherited a new Election Code, which is a good basis for efficient
work. The meeting participants also elected CEC Vice-Chairman and
Secretary – a member of the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA), former
assistant to the RA Premier Abram Bakhchagholyan and a member of the
ARF Dashnaktsutyun Hamlet Abrahamyan.

RA President Robert Kocharyan signed a decree approving the new CEC
membership. The CEC members are also Zaven pluzyan (National Unity),
Artashes Avoyan (Law-Governed Country), Armine Khachatryan (People’s
Deputy), Felix Khachatryan (Justice), Sevan Arakelyan (United Workers’
Party), and a member of the RA Court of Cassation Erna Airyan. The
decree takes force today. P.T. -0–

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress